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.<div><br></div><div>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!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers for your help guys,</div><div>D.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Terrell, Trey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Trey.Terrell@oregonstate.edu">Trey.Terrell@oregonstate.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Our Deployment Method:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Trey Terrell – Forestry Computing Helpdesk</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:wpkg-users-bounces@lists.wpkg.org" target="_blank">wpkg-users-bounces@lists.wpkg.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:wpkg-users-bounces@lists.wpkg.org" target="_blank">wpkg-users-bounces@lists.wpkg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Goodbourn<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> Peter Gough<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org" target="_blank">wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [wpkg-users] Deploying System in Real-Time</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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!!!</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">BTW, how does everyone else deploy software with WPKG? Push or Pull?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">D.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Peter Gough <<a href="mailto:pmgough@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmgough@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That's also the way I read it.<br><br>Can you check that the account you're using for the updates has<br>permissions (RWXD) to write the file in %windir%\system32.<br><br><br><br>On 01/06/2011, at 6:07 AM, Rainer Meier <<a href="mailto:r.meier@wpkg.org" target="_blank">r.meier@wpkg.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>> Hi Kevin,<br>><br>> On 31.05.2011 20:05, <a href="mailto:k.ijssel@eqaz.nl" target="_blank">k.ijssel@eqaz.nl</a> wrote:<br>>> Did you gave the file 777 rights?<br>>><br>>> Else it can't be edited..<br>
><br>> I think he's not talking about server-side XML (wpkg.js does not update any of<br>> them unless you have a script/package which just copies it from local to a<br>> share). So I was assuming that he refers to the local wpkg.xml file - which<br>
> would also explain why he's seeing the same updates on each run.<br>><br>> Moreover I don't think he's using Linux/Samba server; but I am not sure as he<br>> did not specify it.<br>><br>> br,<br>
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