[wpkg-users] Push Install WPKG with Psexec

Stefan Pendl stefan.pendl.71 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 19:25:22 CET 2011


Am 12.12.2011 12:11, schrieb chiddie:
>
> I have 3 questions:
>
> 1. Logging: is it possible to make WPKG automatically create a folder with
> the machine name in order to put each machine log in a different folder?
> Example: now i have edited the config.xml in order to
> * log everything ()
> * create a log file with this name ()
> * put the log files in a specific folder ()
> I wonder if it is possible to tell the program to log under a
> \\\\servername\\\wpkg\\logs\[HOSTNAME] folder, with the program itself
> creating the subdir [HOSTNAME] for every machine if it does not exists.
>

Have you already tried that?

I think that the folder must exist in order to make this work.

> 2. WPKG Service: is it possible to add a command that starts the service
> after installation/upgrade without having to reboot the target machine? I
> tried to add the command:
> <install cmd='net start "WPKG Service"' />  after the line<install
> cmd='msiexec /i...............>. The command succeeds (code 0) but the
> service does not start.
>

How is the client configured?

> 3. Is it possible, ONLY for this package_id that deploys WPKG Client to
> suppress the notify "The automated software installation utility has
> completed installing...." that appears when Windows starts up if the machine
> has not the WPKG Client installed?

Did you check the command line options of wpkg.js?
Hint /nonotify ;-)

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