[Casper] Quickadd Failing

[Ron Prue]

Permissions problem.  Chmod worked great.  Thanks all.


Ron Prue
Technical Services
Noah Corporation
435.214.2927
ron.prue at mynoahs.com






On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Ryan Harter wrote:

> chmod should work just fine.  I run a script to install a different  
> pkg that is stored on a windows machine on some clients and have it  
> run chmod +x on the scripts just incase.
>
> Ryan Harter
> UW - Stevens Point
> Workstation Developer
> 715.346.2716
> Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu
>
> On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Ron Prue wrote:
>
>> Miles-
>>
>> The package was created with an admin account originally.
>>
>> Ryan-
>>
>> The permissions are indeed not correct.  No allowance for an  
>> execute command on any of the contents.  Not sure how this ever  
>> happened as I have used this accross 26 machines in the past 2  
>> months with no problem until now.  However we did do a server  
>> rebuild recently which may have reset the permission on the file.
>>
>> From your example it looks as if it should be rwx for users, group  
>> and other.  Any reason I can't just use the 'chmod' command and  
>> correct this?
>>
>>
>> Ron Prue
>> Technical Services
>> Noah Corporation
>> 435.214.2927
>> ron.prue at mynoahs.com
>>
>>
>> <Noahs Logo.png>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Ryan Harter wrote:
>>
>>> Is your QuickAdd.pkg making it's way across a Windows share on  
>>> it's way to your client?  Or are you copying it using scp?
>>>
>>> I've seen some inconsistent issues with either of these methods  
>>> where some of the special data on the file will get stripped and  
>>> cause the postflight script to no longer be flagged as  
>>> executable.  I would suggest zipping (right click > "Compress") or  
>>> tarring (tar cpvf QuickAdd.pkg) the file before you transfer to be  
>>> sure.
>>>
>>> Also, on the client it is failing on, you can check that the  
>>> postflight script is executable by entering the following into a  
>>> terminal:
>>>
>>> ls -l /path/to/QuickAdd.pkg/Content/Resources/
>>>
>>> and look for  the 'x' in the left hand colomn.
>>>
>>> -rwxrwxrwx  1 rharter  UWSPDOM\domain users      97 Nov 18 17:34  
>>> postflight
>>>
>>> Hope it helps.
>>>
>>> Ryan Harter
>>> UW - Stevens Point
>>> Workstation Developer
>>> 715.346.2716
>>> Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu
>>>
>>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Ron Prue wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am seeing an issue with my quickadd.pkg failing to run a "post- 
>>>> flight script" on some machines.  It is not adding the machine to  
>>>> my JSS and I have repaired permissions and run it again with the  
>>>> same result.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ron Prue
>>>> Technical Services
>>>> Noah Corporation
>>>> 435.214.2927
>>>> ron.prue at mynoahs.com
>>>>
>>>>
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