[Casper] Reboot after an update

[Smith, William]

Do you have a need to do administrative work while your users are working?

You might just want to publicize an administrative policy that all software
updates will be done on a certain day of the week between certain hours and
that Macs will be rebooted at a particular time.

Or, in addition to the JSS message being displayed you might add a command
line instruction to reboot the machine at the same time as the message
warns. I believe ³shutdown ­r +5² should reboot the machine in five minutes
and broadcast a warning within the Terminal to anyone using it as well as
the JSS GUI message. The ³shutdown² command allows you to include a custom
warning message as well.

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
Digital Information Systems Support
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

On 4/8/08 2:20 PM, "Ryan Spaulding" <Ryan.C.Spaulding at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Yes, after software update. The problem is we have a lot of users that use the
> Terminal so they are typing when the dialog box comes up and they hit the
> return key and the box goes away in less then a second. The first couple of
> updates it only happened to a few people then the last two it happened to 15%
> of my users.
> 
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Dagel, Rich wrote:
> 
>>  Are you talking after a software update?   You can set it to not make it
>> reboot but you can tell them that they need to save there work and reboot.
>>  
>>  
>>  On 4/8/08 12:07 PM, "Ryan Spaulding" <Ryan.C.Spaulding at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>>  
>>>   
>>>  Hi All,
>>>  
>>>  I have had a number of users accidently click on the return key when the
>>> dialog box pop-up after an OS update and the user never sees it. Then they
>>> suddenly get rebooted and call me :) Does anyone have a better solution to
>>> this or is there a way to have the 'OK' button not the default? 
>>>  
>>>  Thank you,
>>>  Ryan

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