I don't use the product, but if you can post an example of what the entire file looks like, we can probably help build a script to grab that info. I just don't know what the rest of the xml(?) looks like so it's hard to know how to script it from the bits in your post.

Is this what your file looks like?

<config><panel><name>AppsPanel</name><visible>true</visible></panel><feature><name>SelfServeInstalls</name><enabled>true</enabled></feature></config>

Great idea, hadn't thought of an EA to monitor that. Here's something I just threw together, happy to take suggestions of making it cleaner!

#!/bin/sh



if [ ! -f /Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE/Configs/ServiceConfig.xml ]; then

  echo "<result>Not Installed</result>"

else

  adminEnabled=$(cat /Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE/Configs/ServiceConfig.xml | sed -ne '/enabled/{s/.*<enabled>(.*)</enabled>.*/1/p;q;}')

  echo "<result>$adminEnabled</result>"

fi

Something like this, if the data posted above is accurate, should be able to grab just that "enabled" string (true or false)

cat /Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE/Configs/ServiceConfig.xml | xpath '/config/feature[name="SelfServeInstalls"]/enabled/text()'

I can't effectively test since I don't have it installed.

Thanks @kendalljjohnson and @mm2270 I'll give those a go and see what I get. Never ceases to amaze me how awesome this community is. I'll let you know what I get.

@poormatt yeah that is exactly what it looks like

Just a slight modification to my post above, which gets rid of the cat as it's not necessary for this. This avoids using 2 utilities and a pipe for one command.

/usr/bin/xpath /Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE/Configs/ServiceConfig.xml '/config/feature[name="SelfServeInstalls"]/enabled/text()' 2>/dev/null

Those both worked! Thanks for the assist.