Run Jamfproinstaller without prompt

[jack_bishop]

I'm in the process of scripting deployments of our Jamf Pro Servers (RHEL6) and I keep getting prompted with this:

To be installed into /usr/local/jss:
* Tomcat 8.0.50
* Jamf Pro
* Jamf Pro Database Utility
*
* NOTE: When upgrading to Tomcat 8 for the first time, the account and group named 'tomcat7' will be renamed to 'jamftomcat'

Proceed?  (y/n):

Is there any way to run the installer script without prompts or with an answer of 'y' to the prompt?

thanks,

Jack

[martyuiop1]

I’m sure someone will chip in with a more elegant solution, however in a pinch you can pipe the command ‘yes’ (man yes for details) to your install script call. This does as you suggest and just answers yes to any question.

[jack_bishop · Accepted solution]

I chatted with support and they pointed me to files in the archive. Running the installer command with --info dumps all of the information in the makeself archive.

[root@myserver build]# ./jamfproinstaller.run --info
Identification: Jamf Pro Installer
Target directory: build
Uncompressed size: 170720 KB
Compression: gzip
Date of packaging: Fri Mar 23 18:35:03 UTC 2018
Built with Makeself version 2.2.0 on
Build command was: /usr/bin/makeself 
    "build" 
    "artifacts/jamfproinstaller-10.3.0-t1521825567.run" 
    "Jamf Pro Installer" 
    "bash" 
    "install.sh"
Script run after extraction:
     bash install.sh
build will be removed after extraction

The install.sh command takes a -y, disabling interactive mode and answering yes where applicable. So, my deploy 'script'* will build the archive with the correct arguments and then deploy.

~/makeself-2.3.1/makeself.sh build jps.run "Jacks JPS Installer" bash install.sh -y

This actually works out better as I can make other changes to the test deployments at the same time.

• script is in quotes as I'm using an ansible playbook to do the work.

I hope this helps someone!

Jack

[MFHoff]

Thanks for sharing, Looks like you have been making more progress than me!