I've added links to screenshots of what I have so far in my message class on the "user contributed software" wiki page.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/18/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">mscdex</b> <<a href="mailto:mscdex@gmail.com">mscdex@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree using the wpkg client service would do this, but I am looking to have the smallest footprint possible by having everything executed from a script on the server. From what I've seen in the wpkg client, I've already been able to implement its features that I'd be using for my situation, using WSH (things like before and after wpkg processing, running as an account with higher privileges to allow software installations/upgrades/removals, etc) or small console utilities run from the server.<br>
<br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/18/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tomasz Chmielewski</b> <<a href="mailto:mangoo@wpkg.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mangoo@wpkg.org</a>> wrote:</span></span><div>
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Right now the messages would work when wpkg.js is executed, after the user logs in. This situation is fine by me because I have certain domain groups assigned to at least a certain wpkg base profile (e.g. students, teachers, office staff) and so wpkg would need to be executed after logon. I have the client machine(s) set to not display the desktop shell until the logon scripts have completed and because of that all they see is a wallpaper background while wpkg is running (no sense in giving the user the idea wpkg is finished when it isn't, especially if an auto-reboot is required). I thought during this time if wpkg was performing any tasks, a useful message(s) could be shown so that the they do not assume the system has hung or has crashed.<br>
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Also, I thought it would be especially nice to have a message displayed if an automatic reboot was needed after installing a new application/upgrade/removal, something like "rebooting in 5 seconds..." <br>
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Wouldn't WPKG Client with logon delay enabled solve your problems, including "rebooting in 5 seconds"?<br>
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Note that displaying custom messages is available in testing versions of wpkg.js and WPKG Client.<div><span><br>
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Tomasz Chmielewski<br>
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