[wpkg-users] frequency of wpkgservice checking for new installs

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Falko Trojahn schrieb:
>> Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski
>>   In chel di` si favelave...
>>
>>> There is one slight problem with that: WPKG Client and wpkg.js are not
>>> very well integrated (it will change slowly in the future; right now,
>>> there are even problems with restarts initiated by wpkg.js etc.).
>>> This means, we would have to learn WPKG Client to read and parse files
>>> used by wpkg.js. Which means - parsing profiles.xml is not enough, and
>>> profiles can be also kept in "profiles" directory.
>> A note: this is a very good point about wpkg: if client are smaller,
>> and totally indipendent from the server, and all of the core 'code' are
>> server side, there's little or no possibility to break something.
>>
>> So, i clearly interesting in new featue, but please don't break this
>> simple and robust approach.
>>
>>
>> In this topic: why not writing a recipe/package that simply add a
>> task (with schtasks) that run wpkg as a regular basis?
> Ack. Just a
>  net stop "windows packager"
>  net start "windows packager"
> (or "wpkg service") would do it, too.
> 
> Just created a little vbs script which asks for Computer name(s)
> (and user/password if you like) to remotely restart wpkg service:

One problem with that is that it will delay user logon again (if it's 
enabled).

Actually, for some, it may be a problem, and for some, an advantage. Hmm.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org



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