Software Update through UNIX command

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Software Update through UNIX command

Hey all,

Just a quick question regarding Software Update through Remote Desktop.

I'm running the UNIX command softwareupdate -i -a but it hang. I'm guessing it's due to our proxy, and that we have to login to the proxy server in order for the system to continue fetching the updates.

Basically, what I'm asking is if there is a way to bypass this, i.e. a command to follow the systemupdate -i -a command which will log me into the proxy?

Cheers,

Nick

Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 25, 2011 4:36 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 25, 2011 5:37 AM in response to Nickolie

Hi

You can apply a setting to bypass proxy in the network preferences pane for each of your client workstations. You can apply this setting using the networksetup command. Consult the man pages for usage. Once applied the command should stop looking at the proxy and simply access the SUS locally.

Tony

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B Man

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Jan 25, 2011 2:32 PM in response to Antonio Rocco

What I did was create a UNIX task in ARD call "Software Update from Local SUS" with the following command for all the computers I want to update from our local SUS:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://ip.address.of.server:8088/
softwareupdate -i -a

Just replace ip.address.of.server with your server's IP address or FQDN and run the task from ARD. Works great for us.

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Answer 3

Feb 3, 2011 10:08 AM in response to Nickolie

I have the same issue where hangs at the proxy requiring me to authenticate to access the web. I have no issues if I ssh into the Mac workstation just trying to figure out is this can be done from ARD.

Anybody know how to setup softwareupdate with a user:password

example

softewareupdate -l
user:pass

Gracias

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Nickolie Author

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Feb 4, 2011 4:23 AM in response to B Man

Hi.

I tried the command:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://ip.address.of.server:8088/
softwareupdate -i -a

but all I get back is this:

2011-02-04 12:16:14.482 defaults[874]
Rep argument is not a dictionary
Defaults have not been changed.
/bin/bash: line 2: http://xx.xxx.xx.xxx:8088: No such file or directory
Software Update Tool

Thanks for your help so far. Much appreciated.

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Answer 5

Feb 4, 2011 1:01 PM in response to Nickolie

Hi

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4069
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3923

Tony

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Nickolie Author

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Feb 7, 2011 5:03 AM in response to Antonio Rocco

Thanks for that Antonio,

But it still doesn't seem to be doing the trick.

I looked at your previous post about the networksetup command but to put it bluntly, I'm a total newbie when it comes to OS X Networks at the moment and I'm still learning new things everyday.

I looked at the networksetup command and it sent me back errors basically saying I'm rubbish and I'm doing it wrong lol.

I'd really like to get all the computers to update automatically as we have 30+ Macs and it's a real pain updating them all manually.

Thank you so far for all you're help. Much appreciated.

Nick

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Answer 7

Feb 7, 2011 1:04 PM in response to Nickolie

You're welcome Nick

What error message do you get exactly? Would you have OSX Server configured and running on the same network by any chance?

Tony

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Nickolie Author

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Feb 8, 2011 1:19 AM in response to Antonio Rocco

I have Software Update enabled on the server. The server is running 10.5.8 (not sure if I mentioned the earlier).

I opened WGM and selected a group of computers I have managed running 10.4, and entered the address: * http://su.domain_name.com:8088/index.sucatalog*; but with my server ip replacing the "domain_name.com" (again I was unsure about this).

Am I going the right way about it all? I didn't get any errors, but again I'm not sure If I did it right...

Thanks very much,

Nick

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