[wpkg-users] Deploying System in Real-Time

[Dave Goodbourn]

After a little investigation this morning, turns out that my VLC setup
wasn't verifying correctly. After a quick tweak all seems to be fine now,
thanks.

Trey - how are you executing the psexec from WPKGExpress? Are you using the
php exec/shell_exec commands? This sounds like the perfect idea for what I'm
looking at. I was going to write a simple small desktop app to execute the
psexec command on all/select workstations but building it as part of
WPKGExpress would be far nicer!

Cheers for your help guys,
D.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Terrell, Trey <
Trey.Terrell at oregonstate.edu> wrote:

> Our Deployment Method:
>
>
>
> I’ve rewritten parts of WPKGExpress to include a “push” button which sends
> the psexec command as an administrator account from the web server to the
> given computer. I don’t use the client, as I don’t want to manage uninstalls
> or force reinstallations of software. It’s more just a quick deployment
> method for me. There’s a bunch of other fancy stuff – package-specific logs
> and such so I don’t have to ever mess with XML or .log files, WPKGExpress
> just parses everything for me. As someone noted after me, for package
> notification I rewrote part of my wpkg.js to automatically launch
> wpkgmessage in the console session (using psexec -i – haven’t found a better
> way yet) to notify them of which packages are currently being installed. It
> works quite nicely so far.
>
>
>
> *Trey Terrell – Forestry Computing Helpdesk*
>
>
>
> *From:* wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org [mailto:
> wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] *On Behalf Of *Dave Goodbourn
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:30 PM
> *To:* Peter Gough
> *Cc:* wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> *Subject:* Re: [wpkg-users] Deploying System in Real-Time
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I'm not at work at the moment, but a bit more info for you. The client is a
> Win 7 x64 and I'm testing the commands from an XP SP3 x86. I'm running with
> an administrators account.
>
>
>
> Another thing I've noticed is that if I run the cscript locally it works
> just great, but if I just start the service it can sometimes again fail to
> update the wpkg.xml file. I'm going to try a different software installation
> as I'm not 100% sure the VLC script I'm testing with works 100% correctly.
> I'll do some more testing tomorrow when I'm back in work and try and narrow
> down where I'm going wrong!!!
>
>
>
> BTW, how does everyone else deploy software with WPKG? Push or Pull?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> D.
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Peter Gough <pmgough at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's also the way I read it.
>
> Can you check that the account you're using for the updates has
> permissions (RWXD) to write the file in %windir%\system32.
>
>
>
> On 01/06/2011, at 6:07 AM, Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > On 31.05.2011 20:05, k.ijssel at eqaz.nl wrote:
> >> Did you gave the file 777 rights?
> >>
> >> Else it can't be edited..
> >
> > I think he's not talking about server-side XML (wpkg.js does not update
> any of
> > them unless you have a script/package which just copies it from local to
> a
> > share). So I was assuming that he refers to the local wpkg.xml file -
> which
> > would also explain why he's seeing the same updates on each run.
> >
> > Moreover I don't think he's using Linux/Samba server; but I am not sure
> as he
> > did not specify it.
> >
> > br,
> > Rainer
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