[Casper] software update not delaying reboot

[Alan Benedict]

Also seeing this, I have mine displaying a message but not forcing a reboot.
 Doesn't seem to always display the message. I'm going to try and use the
display message script instead of the message in the Reboot tab.
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Alan Benedict
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Steve Wood <swood at integer.com> wrote:

> We were seeing that behavior as well, back in Casper 5 even.  But I could
> never prove it was happening.  The SWU would be pushed out and the machine
> restarted, even though I was giving a 5 minute countdown if a user was
> logged in.  I've now gone to just displaying the "Please Restart" dialog box
> but not forcing the restart.
>
> Steve Wood
> Director of IT
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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Nichols, Jared <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi-
>>
>> I've had reports of some people losing work because the software
>> updates that were forced down never prompted them that they were going
>> to reboot and that they needed to save their work.  I've got the
>> policy set up to prompt them that it's going to reboot after 2
>> minutes.  My understanding, and in my testing, is that the clock
>> didn't start counting until they clicked OK, giving them ample time to
>> save their work.  Could something be wrong or am I not understanding
>> this correctly?  Attached is a screenshot of the reboot tab on the
>> policy.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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