[Casper] Reboot after an update

[Ryan Spaulding]

We schedule every reboot with at least 24 hours of notification (most  
time it's close to 72 hours) but we have users that work until the  
dialog comes up.

On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Smith, William wrote:

> 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 “shutdown –r +5” 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 “shutdown”  
> 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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