##osx-server

@macmule > whats taking so long?

ben____: FW800 from a creaking Mac Mini

ben____: it

ben____: it'll have double RAM & a fusion drive soon. (Home Mac btw).

why fusion? and not just run off ssd?

Allister: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion....

Can you run a payload free package the will do chmod?

ahh..gonna say it takes 17 hours for my weekly backup to run ~300GB over net to a backup server offsite.

It does not seem to be working for me currently.

jyang: space & cost

Errors mystify people

NexusT: What does this mean? "Can you run a payload free package the will do chmod?"

gneagle: well Certs without SAN are bad

NexusT: pastebin your pkginfo file and maybe someone will help

tackittj: He's asking about a payload-free pkg

gneagle: Sorry, I have a payload free package in Munki, that is supposed to run a chmod command to give everyone access to a folder, it does not work.

whats the latest OS X a 2009 macmini can run?

ben____: Current, IIRC

ben____: http://www.mactracker.ca/

NexusT: Let's see the script

ben____: Yosemite. Currently mine has 4GB RAM & a 750GB 5400rpm disk. Hoping to give it a nice boost with little cost.

gneagle: http://pastebin.com/vrgkHDri Its not very complicated thankfully.

@macmule fair enough - I think SSD's and HD's are so cheap now though..

$49 for a 1 tb WD Green

NexusT: And how did you insert that into a payload-free pkg?

gneagle: tell sheagcraig, not me

(sudo unneeded)

jyang: I'd need a 1TB SSD.. Or a 1TB low profile laptop sized spinning disk.

Allister: Just pointing out that errors mystify people

hmmm

swy - back in action

Allister: And PackageSignatureVerifier errors will too

TBH, AutoPKGr has done right.. They should generate a new cert. Anyways, I'll reply later.

huh maybe the one i just resurrected was older than i thought..couldnt get anything newer than Lion even after a ram upgrade..i hope you dont need a new fan..the bearings on the original were shot and the new one was more than i wanted to pay

gneagle: sure, it still falls on the 'worth it' side of the cost/value equation to me

jyang: it was £95 for 250GB SSD :)

tbridge: re newsletter- I was surprised that using 2 SSIDs would double bandwidth

ben____: it's been in use for a couple of years. So it's fine.

Allister: Ha. Didn't see that one.

@macmule yeah the higher capacities still a little pricey

gneagle: its the postflight.sh The original Version did not have the sudo but in attempting to eliminate possible issues i added it in.

NexusT: Definitely the wrong name

ssd's are about $0.50/GB around here.

how is the xfinity SSID not just part of the customer bandwidth- hopefully rate limited?

esp. since those can be disabled by default. Heck, I'll use ygini's preprocessor for that and my default catalog, kill most if not all of my recipe overrides

NexusT: Is this a flat package or a bundle package?

swy - in this case he's using one wired link from that Comcast modem, and then using one of the unused radios to connect to the xfinity SSID. I think in many cases, especially if you're not getting the full monty connection speed, they're reserving the rest of the speed for their own link

jyang: once you look at a proper SSD, might as well replace the Mini.

swy - since the gateway is smart enough to rate limit the link, it doesn't have to be done at hte head end.

gneagle: a flat package, it is just that script

NexusT: (hint: your script is not running at all)

tbridge: so possibly he's on a 30Mbit plan, but the modem is negotiated at 60.

It must be named "postinstall" (no extension)

swy - more likely the modem is negotiated at the max possible speed (150?) and then whatever the guy's not paying for is assigned to the xfinitywifi SSID

so it *could* be faster than that.

NexusT: "postflight" script don't exist with flat pkgs, only "preinstall" and "postinstall"

but I'm not sure

NexusT: Make sure it is executeable

so that's an incentive to pay for the lowet possible, and use 150-lowest possible via xfinitywifi for your daily use.

if you're not into configuring load balancing WAN routers.

gneagle: Ah I see where i went wrong, Thank you!

huh, no NickZWG today

anyone got any love with installing chrome extensions outside of chrome store?

GaToRAiD: not sure if the work pmbuko did on chrome was just reporting... looking for gist

Allister: Probably spring break in Cancun

NexusT: I have a post on payload-free packages that may help here - https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/un...

Allister: ty, i will take al look at it

GaToRAiD: ^^ that's about enabling or disabling once present, not sure about getting on file system in a way it's recognized

Allister: gotcha, thats the problem i'm having, there is only one writeup on how to do it, but very little info

rtrouton: Thank you i had not seen this post.

lo all; is there any point in using instadmg (or its replacement) anymore, or is everyone using deploystudio and the built in tools for osx deployment now ?

mmercer: we use AutoDMG to produce the OS.dmg file that serves as the basis of DeployStudio and Casper imaging workflows

mmercer: There's some of both (all three, actually) here. Some DeployStudio, some imaging, some no-imaging (tweaking the default OS).

AutoDMG if I need a base OS, but if the machine is new, straight to DS to start configuring.

^^

I don't mess with the OS as Apple shipped it unless I'm repurposing existing hardware to a new hire. Then it's fresh.

* nods * Been a while since I've done the it deployment side of OSX, so wasnt sure how much things have changed; used to run InstaDMG, Munki, and DeployStudio

autodmg is the one that replaced insta isnt it ?

mmercer: yes

thought so. i still call it insta as its been that long XD

different projects, overlapping names and purposes.

really? I thought Auto was a fork of his earlier project by MajorValp

heh

or was insta gneagles. i know he wrote a couple tools i was using for a while too

I could be mistaken, but I didn't think AutoDMG is a code evolution of instaDMG

either way, just refreshing myself on the modern toolset people are using now :)

AutoDMG is all new, fresh and clean - based on ideas set forth in InstaDMG

ahh, cool :)

mmercer instaDMG was Karl Kuehn, picked up by Allister later, IIRC.

^-- I trust this info.

rustymyers: ahh, thats what it was, Allister was the one that I remembered, but couldnt think of his handle

I'm just a sucker for attention, kept it on life support for a bit

Allister forgotten. Doesn't happen often. :)

swy: its been... 3? maybe 4 years since I was active in here :p

Thought the original dev of InstaDMG was macshome

foigus: close

MacTroll?

I remember when natewalck reached out about InstaUp2Date docs on the wiki

foigus: close

If I get another strike I'm out

well, theres a :macmule: in here youve tried *mac* so far XD

I'm pretty sure I'm going down looking. I have no more guesses

mmercer: not enough AppleScript to me mine.

remember ManifestDestiny? now THAT was a project name

forget Moscargo

macmule: * nods * I was just observing the trend of "mac" in the name and looking for presence of "mac" in the room

foigus: is MacTroll still around? They helped me some over at AFP548.com

I always like the name "Cylinder of Destiny"

macmule: I honestly don't know, someone in here is bound to know the answer though.

mmercer: I've also written an Auto tool.. Just to be annoying.

macmule: he was in town for NRC

that's what that thing was called, yes?

macmule: MacTroll got promoted within Apple.

Allister: oh, the expo I went to & flew over for. Yep.

macmule: Now he lurks.

Hello

andrewseago: Hey there.

rtrouton: ah ok. Well they were very helpful. :)

so was some Allister Banks guy on AFP548.com years ago. https://www.afp548.com/forums/topic/cs5-instaup...

whoa, foilpan's been out of the mac admin game for years

whoa.. Some 8 years ago: https://www.afp548.com/forums/topic/binding-to-...

Anyone replace loginhooks with this, yet? https://github.com/MagerValp/LoginScriptPlugin

i bet MagerValp has

besides MagerValp! I was just thinking I should specify that! ;)

I think gmarnin was at least looking at it? And bruienne, although he's sick today