synchronizing share points

Hi Thomas!

Would these happen to be just the .pkg or .mpkg packages (not .dmg
packages)?

I've found that if I set Casper Admin's preferences for Syncing to use "File
Size" rather than "Modification Date" this problem goes away. I haven't seen
this problem in a long while since doing that but I think in our case
antivirus software was scanning the packages and causing modification dates
to change.

Hope this helps!

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
Digital Information Systems Support
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

99% of our packages are .dmg files. The problem is, I find out now,
that it wasn't copying my shell script out to the shares and the policy
was erroring out due to the script not being found on the share.

I manually copied the script out to the shares, but I was hoping this
would just sync

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
cell: 913-449-7589
office: 913-627-0351

Hi Thomas!

A JSS policy to sync? I don't know of any built-in feature of the JSS that
syncs packages to other servers.

The Casper Admin application will sync the master repository with other
repositories but that's on demand. And I believe it should include scripts
as well as packages.

Or are you referring to something home-grown?

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
Digital Information Systems Support
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

I have noticed this also and do not know if this is just how it works or
what. If you are using a OS X server infrastructure rsync may be a solution
for you. There are a few GUI implementations that leverage rsync
http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html is a freeware version from
U of M (Michigan that is). If you run Rsync as a daemon on both ends you
can set it up to do delta updates...

Here is a article on that process here

http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html

Yeah I have thought about rsync and cron jobs and yes we are an OD
network. However, launchd has its issues and I would rather get a
working solution with in the application.

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
cell: 913-449-7589
office: 913-627-0351