I am scheduling a task to run some maintenance scripts and then reboot. I would like to have a warning popup on the client giving them the option to cancel before restarting their computer. If they didn't respond within a specified amount of time, the scripts would run and the computer would reboot. Any suggestions?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Have you tried applescript? There a command line tool to trigure an applescript. You could use a command like.
try
with timeout of 2 seconds
tell application "Finder"
set answer to display dialog "This computer is about to be rebooted" buttons {"Reboot", "Cancel Reboot"}
end tell
end timeout
on error
set answer to {button returned:"Cancel Reboot"}
end try
and then pipe the results into an if then command.
Allow client to cancel scheduled reboot
