Software Update Server 10.6.2 not providing all updates

With regard to 10.6.4 fixing issues where clients don't see enabled updates, or updates previously shown as downloaded and enabled suddenly showing as not downloaded after enabling something else and saving, no. 10.6.4 does not appear to have resolved that/those problems for me.

I will rebuild the list again later, just to be sure it isn't some old (</=10.6.3) corruption still stuck...

I ran repair permissions on the boot volume and it fixed a privileges issue with the swupd.config (user was blah, should be blahblah), but manual update list did not seem to fix anything.

This morning (the day after repair perms), all new updates (10.6.4, security update, iTunes) were unchecked. I checked them and saved, and now the clients can see the updates. So over night it seems to have settled out the problems I was seeing. Time will tell, of course, but keep a good thought!

Thank you, the Server Combo update 10.6.4 fixed the problem for me!

Unlike the previous poster, 10.6.4 Combo didn't fix the Software Update Server problem for me. I just upgraded an XServe (Late 2006 Intel Xeon) this past Saturday from the most recent version of 10.5, and then ran the updates to get it to 10.6.4. Nothing shows up as available updates in the SUS list at all.

Check "Copy ('all new' or 'all') updates from apple" at the settings tab.

Could you explain what you mean by "rebuild the list". Is there something you can do to knock some sense into SUS, short of wiping everything and starting over?

I just updated to OS X Server 10.6.4, and SUS hasn't improved its behavior.

I am having the same issue.
Brand new server, just installed the 10.6.4 v1.1 (posted July 22 2010) hoping it would fix the issue but it seems that the software update server can only serve EITHER 10.5 OR 10.6 clients - not both for many different apps!

This is pathetic - what am I supposed to do - keep watching the server until I see a client hit it and figure out what OS it's running and quickly enable the correct one?

Grrr....

Having just completely reset my SUS server (wiped /etc/swupd and /var/db/swupd) and then messing with settings for a bit, I finally have it working correctly.

One thing that I discovered along the way is that clients are supposed to use different URL's for SUS dependent on their OS version. For a while, I was using the generic URL and getting frustrated that I couldn't get the updates - once I tweaked the URL on my managed clients to match their OS version, everything worked just fine (I use Computer Groups in Workgroup Manager to achieve this). Except for the Safari 5.01 update - there were 3 versions of that and I think I messed up selecting one, eventually I got it right.

As of now, I have SUS downloading All New and Automatically Enable Updates. Initially I had everything off and just pulled the updates for all of this year before switching to auto mode.

The different URLs are on Page 89 of the System Imaging and Software Update Admin Guide.

Hope this helps!

I'm hoping I'm only a few tweaks away!
I've deleted everything in those directories, have all my clents pointing at the correct URL (the10.5 boxes successfully pull down the safari update when I enable the 37MB version and the 10.6 get the 49MB version when I enable that). I've turned on enable all, re-downloaded 30GB of updates and they still won't both be served - only one works.

Any other ideas?

Changing the location of the catalogs fixed my problem with updates not taking on 10.6.4 clients.

I swear, the longer I do this job, the stupider I feel!

John

LJS! THANK YOU! This little bit about different sucatalogs for different flavors of OSX is the answer I've been looking for for quite some time now. Awesome.