[wpkg-users] prompting a user before continuing

[Nils Thiele]

Hi,

Why not use wpkg-gp to execute? It is delaying the execution until the 
network is up (and also has a timeout function if network is down).

About the confirmation:

You are running the popup as a different user than the one logged on 
(admin or system) and i guess that the confirmation would only be 
displayed to the user who is executing the script.


For user confirmation before running wpkg may take a look at my client 
application for wpkg-gp:

https://github.com/sonicnkt/wpkg-gp-client


Best Regards,

Nils






Am 02.01.2017 um 12:23 schrieb Jürgen Depicker:
> Hello all,
>
> On my network, wpkg runs before login, but this doesn't always work since W7 and higher don't always initialize networking before showing the login prompt.  I haven't found a way to force the behavior I would like (initialize networking first).
>
> To cope with this, I run from time to time a script on my server, which launches wpkg.js using psexec on all machines currently online.  For some packages, it is needed to kill the running process before we can start the upgrade.  It is understandable that not all users appreciate their browser to be killed (while editing some stuff for example) without giving their approval.  I've tried to display a confirm box to ask them to finish their work and push 'OK' so they don't lose work, but this popup doesn't show.  What am I doing wrong please?
>
> wpkg.js version 1.3.0
> the below is for 64-bit windows systems only
> there is an additional check for running processes (based on https://wpkg.org/Script_for_checking_if_a_process_is_already_running ), so what's below only executes if the process is running.
>
> <install cmd="taskkill /F /IM Firefox.exe">
>        <exit code="any" />
>        <condition>
>           <check type="execute" path='%windir%\syswow64\cscript "%SOFTWARE%\confirm.js"' condition="exitcodeequalto" value="0" />
>        </condition>
> </install>
>
> I've been playing with the js code found here as source for my confirm.js: http://with-love-from-siberia.blogspot.be/2009/12/msgbox-inputbox-in-jscript.html
> No popup is visible on the client though... (except from the one generated by wpkg.js, warning about updates being installed).

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