[Casper] Flushing User Caches

[Criss Myers]

or Use iHook 

I use iHook rather than using Casper for login hooks 

Criss


Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Business Support Team
Library 301
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054

>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:31 PM, in message
<ec2e75ff0901220431v16ef1bdfi1dddb70e39e3ad68 at mail.gmail.com>, Miles
Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> wrote:

I believe for $3 and login policies in general to work, you need to
check "Create Login/Logout Hooks", "Log IP/Username with Login/Logout
Hooks" and "Check for Policies with Login/Logout Hooks" in Management
Preferences, which is found in the Management tab.

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Criss Myers 
<CMyers at uclan.ac.uk> 

wrote:


Hi, 


Could you not just redirect the cache folder to the local HD on login
and then delete at logout, 


i use WGM to redirect the Cache and fonts folder on login from a network
Home folder, to /tmp/ they then get deleted at logout, 


A login hook could do the same, 


Criss


Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Business Support Team
Library 301
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054 




>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at  4:31 AM, in message
<fc.000f4ccf02026db3000f4ccf020234f6.2026dea at phrd.ab.ca>, "Gene
Anderson" <ganderson at phrd.ab.ca> wrote:




Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> writes:
>When you run a script via a Casper policy, $3 = the user's shortname.
This is why I structure my commands to target /Users/$3/
>
>This may be a matter of preference, but I would skip the $file variable
and the for loop in this case. We're operating on known values. To me,
at least, it seems unnecessary to declare $file and then set up a for/if
structure when we can just operate on each item and save lines.
>
>The script below accomplishes the goal with just a few lines and is set
up to be run as part of a Casper policy triggered by login.

Okay, I must be missing something here because I can't get this to work.
Script is:

rm -Rf /Users/$3/Library/Caches/*

being executed on Tiger clients. Policy is set to execute on all Tiger
workstations, trigger on login and frequency ongoing. The policy reports
no errors. Should this command work from the Terminal? How does the $3
value in the script get assigned? If I manually execute the script from
the Terminal the full path comes back as "/Users//Library/Caches". Does
Casper somehow fill in the value for the script?



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