##osx-server

adamcodega: yeah are there people doing that?

mosen: Doing what?

adamcodega: fully cloud hosted fileshares?

Well there isn't the fileshare mentality, it's all people owning files and folders instead of non user folders.

Dropbox, Box, someone has to be the owner of the folder.

egnyte seemed a little closer to that

Compared to your local network share people think of.

::yawn::

long day AC?

kind of a boring day.

Have some network stuff I need to attend you but not motivated.

making meatballs and pasta for dinner.

cool

mmmmmmmmmm mmmmeatballs

From the frozen aisle at that.

Trying to get rid of the Barila in the house.

I feel like everyone is boomeranging emails and it's failing.

getting a few emails I think people are writing as if they were being sent tomorrow morning.

they're [prepping for a snow day

hehe

except their emails aren't delayed.

school's canceled tomorrow.. drive should be nice and easy.

ah east coast problems.

Indeed.

I just thought of an iBeacon in my pocket, unlocking things in Self Service when I'm at someone's desk.

I thought of enabling one for around my desk

when you come by it opens up the helpdesk page

Yeah we wouldn't use sign-in for SS, so to give SS an IT section, I can manually add the laptop to the smart group, or find some other trigger to set it.

we do

Like laptop is near beacon.

its an interesting usecase

i read that as chucknorirs^

Haha

that moment when you try to log in as root and instead log in as "toot"

Haha, those suckers won't know I changed the username to toor

i feel bad when i type pythong and someone is watching

heh

I cook like a admin, slowly and with Bash.

with a sprig of vi and a 2-finger pinch of nano?

That sounds tasty.

I troll developers by talking about Sublime Text.

I've not used Sublime Text before. How are you trolling? Is it good or terrible?

real developers use vim :)

just as bad as vi vs nano vs emacs

Sublime has an add-on for plist support (binary), otherwise I just don't like that TextWrangler icon ;)

I don't seem to be able to find anything on this that is dumbed down to my level, but I am trying to add this in to a script that will run out of automator, but it's erroring. osascript -e 'do shell script "chmod 755 "/Applications/Utilities/Log WiFi.app/"" with administrator privileges'

Any specific reason why you are using Automator and applescript msim?

Probably need to escape the quotes around the application path.

I need something that users can run while not connected to the network (to take logs of wireless connectivity issues) so I am using automator to create a .app, and I am wanting it to save in to /Applications/Utilities/app

(I also just thought of something which I will now try, if that works I feel very stupid)

That chmod will only change that specific folder. Why the perm change?

msim: Yeah, it's the double quotation marks

Okay, I'm dumb, I can just change the privileges on the .app before I deploy it and it works.

but...why...osascript "applescript do shell script "shellscript""

Or, ok, if you're skinning this cat some other way

(now, I might be aware of a postflight script that one of our vendors provided (in their pkg) that does that)

Give me a sec to work out what dumb logic I am using

(I haven't slept for 30+ hours, only awake due to excessive caffeine)

Okay, so the app when launched runs under the user, but I need it to run with elevated priveleges to be able to sudo the chmod, but when doing a sudo chmod the user isn't prompted, so I wanted to use applescript to do the shell command, and with admin priveleges specified it will prompt the user to auth as an admin

What are you trying to accomplish?

Allowing the script to write to the the directory of that app, it gathers info and writes it to a .txt file under appname.app/Contents/file.txt

Being that it's under Applications/Utilities/appname.app by default the user can't write to it

I'm sure I am doing it a horribly redundant and convoluted way, but my brain is fried

Why does the application need to write a file into itself (as opposed to /Users/Shared or some other more neutral location)?

I came to the realisation that I can just change the permissions on the app before I deploy it, and completely removing the need for the applescript

I didn't want it writing to /Users/Shared, wanted it somewhere users wouldn't touch

You could write out to a file with a leading period, then users won't see it

That is true

Didn't think of that one.

double true

what happens to the file after it's written

It's stays there until network connectivity is back and I can fetch the files

Yeah I'd dot hide it, what's the worst that's inside of it?

Nothing sensitive really

I just didn't want users to see it and go "huh what's that?" and delete it

Yeah, dot will help that.

Nobody ever uses /Users/Shared anyway

:P

Yeah, that one didn't occur to my fried brain

Haha flip047

msim: Nah, users never delete things. "Microsoft User Data? Don't use that, gotta nuke it."

Hell, give it a dot name and put it on their Desktop.

but /Users/Shared is a good idea.

Which was tremendously entertaining with Entourage, because Entourage continues to run even though the Database was in the trash

But following a reboot, Entourage stops working

He's a resilient bugger

oh wait, no he isn't

Like a roach