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Software Update "Set Server" policy adding a trailing space to SUS URL

  • December 18, 2012
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Today I started looking at some some SUS things to verify clients are getting the updates they should be. In the course of troubleshooting I discovered the JSS option (under he Policies>packages area) to set the SUS server is adding a trailing space to the URL the client uses to connect. Running the "Defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL" command clearly shows the trailing space.

It is causing issues—in some cases it appears be falling back to Apple's servers (clients are seeing a Java update we disabled and the source of the update is not listed) or no updates are listed at all.

I assume this is a bug. Is there a workaround short of writing a script to set the SUS?

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We've had to set this via script for 10.8 machines rather than using that built in function.


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  • December 18, 2012

I was just about to post what you discovered: after further testing this issue only appears to affect 10.8 machines. I logged a support ticket, hopefully it is resolved soon.


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  • January 31, 2013

We're also having the same issue. Is there any fix? I know the workaround but it requires creating additional policies as we have 4 replica SUS's in different regions.


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  • February 7, 2013

any update on this powellbc?

We're seeing the same


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  • February 7, 2013

I've reported it to my JAMF rep, so hopefully this will be fixed in the next revision of the suite.


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  • April 18, 2013

Can anyone confirm if this has been updated in 8.64?


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  • April 18, 2013

I just checked my system on 8.64 and I do not see a space inserted.


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  • April 25, 2013

Just upgraded to 8.64 and still seeing the same issue :(