Hi folks,
Edit after more testing: it appears there is a character limit of around 255 for paramaters, can anyone confirm?
I wrote a bash script which takes, as a parameter in Casper, a list of Apple Software Update IDs (separated by spaces) and processes them and applies only the updates available to the system running the script. I wanted to be able to push updates to clients while leveraging Software Update and Apple's SUS to only install specific updates, with some additional logic and user prompts to improve the user experience.
The problem I have is that I seem to be running into an issue with the parameters, possibly with a length limit (if there is one, I haven't found anything documented). I am able to successfully add the script to the policy without errors but once I click Save, the script disappears from the policy. I tried shortening the input list and it worked as expected.
Here is the parameter I am passing, can anyone please take a look and tell me if it is too long or if there is something else causing the issue?
AirPortUtility-6.3.1 iTunesX-11.0.4 iTunesXPatch-11.0.4 JavaForOSX-1.0 OSXUpd10.8.4-10.8.4 OSXUpdCombo10.8.4-10.8.4 RAWCameraUpdate4.07-4.07 RemoteDesktopClient-3.6.2 SecUpd2013-003-1.0 ThunderboltFirmwareUpdate1.2-1.2 Safari6.0.5Lion-6.0.5 Safari6.0.4Mountain-6.0.4 041-9577-2.14
It worked when I randomly cut it down to:
AirPortUtility-6.3.1 iTunesX-11.0.4 iTunesXPatch-11.0.4 JavaForOSX-1.0 OSXUpd10.8.4-10.8.4 OSXUpdCombo10.8.4-10.8.4
I guess if it is a hard length limit, I can store the list in a file and keep that on my DPs and my script can read it in since the DP will be mounted at a known sharepoint during execution.
Thanks,
Alex
