[Casper] Issues with Time machine script.

Eric Young eyoung at thayer.org
Tue Jul 15 07:21:13 PDT 2008


It is not.  it is currently setup to run after a machine is imaged.   
Now that I write this out that logic seems rather flawed....

seems at login and once per user would be the right way to set that up.


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On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Criss Myers wrote:

> is it a login hook?
>
> did you set capser to run login hooks?
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> Criss Myers
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> >>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at  2:37 PM, in message <A380CA36-FB1B-4F1A-8E79-4695CA64DD37 at thayer.org 
> >, Eric Young <eyoung at thayer.org> wrote:
> First off, hello all.  Casper n00b here.
>
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> I have a script that is supposed to set a defaults write for that  
> annoying time machine message whenever you plug in a drive.  it does  
> not seem to be working for me when it is deployed with an image.   
> does it have to go as a separate login/logout policy instead?  Find  
> the text of the script below.
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>
> #!/bin/sh
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> /usr/bin/defaults write /Network/Servers/student.thayer.org/Volumes/ 
> STUHOMEDIR/STUDENTHOME/$3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine  
> DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool yes
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> /usr/bin/defaults write /Network/Servers/faculty.thayer.org/Volumes/ 
> FACHOMEDIR/FACULTYHOME/$3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine  
> DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool yes
>
> /usr/bin/defaults write /Users/$3/Library/Preferences/ 
> com.apple.TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool yes
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