Re: [Samba] Automatic Windows Patch Deployment (OS Agnostic)
Yes, i've considered the registry keys idea, and I have a very good idea on how to implement. Each package could have a series of installation checks, for registry, or file existance, which could clue it into the fact that it's already installed, just add the entry and continue. package id=hotfix check type=registryHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/blah/blah/check ... Yup. GPG. :) On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 23:51, Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 12:16, Jerry Haltom wrote: A month ago I mentioned on this list work on a automated package deployment tool for Windows systems, which is server agnostic. At the time, I didn't have the time to put it up in a place for public consumption. I do now. The utility is named wpkg (punny isn't it?) It's nothing more than a simple .js (jscript) file which needs to be run on Windows, from a directory containing three XML files describing packages, hosts, and profiles to be installed on a system. Each package consists of nothing more than a set of command lines to run on install/upgrade/removal, a version number, and a name. When the script is run (preferably as a service at boot, using srvany.exe, or FireDaemon), it checks a local C:\$SYS$\System32\wpkg.xml file, which lists the package entries of locally installed packages, determines which new packages are available, and attempts to install them according to their command lines, and reboots if neccassary. Have you considered making it look in the registry for the hotfix keys? For sites which are not deployed from scratch, this could help move to this central system, without needing to standardise all the machines from scratch. It is very simple, but I've now been running it for a week, with about 10 boxes (about to roll it out to all my systems), and it is totally successful. It's very easy to add new packages, or upgade existing packages, and then force a system wide reboot. I am sending it to the list because I imagine there are similar Windows administrators out there, running Samba (or not) that need a good software deployment utility. Microsoft's SUS sort of requires IIS, SMS isn't much better. Also, I would like people to check it out, and submit patches, or changes, or new features to me, so that I may make use of them too. :) As I mentioned on IRC, the big thing I think it needs is a GPG signature over the patch repository, to try and prevent spoofs. The source code is currently hosted on my subversion repository, at: http://jack.feedbackplusinc.com/svn/repos/wpkg/ Username: guest Password: your email address The package is released under the GPL. (Can one of you license guru's tell me if the GPL is appropiate for a windows patcher written in jscript?) Well, it doesn't have much of a binary form, but the GPL works pretty well for almost anything :-) Enjoy. I certainly will :-) Andrew Bartlett -- My current setup is using this sytem, with FireDaemon to launch the service at start. Soon as Monday rolls around, im going to play with the ResKit's srvany.exe program. -- Jerry Haltom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feedback Plus, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Automatic Windows Patch Deployment (OS Agnostic)
This will install any type of package, of any form, that can be installed silently from the command line. MSI's are of course easy. msiexec /i path to msi. However, almost any program out there has silent install options of some sort. This makes no distinction. If it can be installed by running a program with various options, this utility can do it. And you can of course make your own .bat files for packages. On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 04:47, rruegner wrote: Hi, as far as i studied your scripts, this will only deploy msi packs , am i right ? so far ,wonderfull idea but at my knowledge you can do this with netlogon scripts too i.e if you check the registrty at logon and if not exist the wanted pack, install it via batch and the quit option which is included to msi, reinstall should work just the same. after all wonderfull work , i will test it...but a deploy system for all kind of packs would be the greatest ...do you have any idea about that with freeware. on freshmeat there is only one project unattended which relates in this stuff it is a complex perl thing... i would preffer a more simple solution lets stay in contact about that best Regards - Original Message - From: Jerry Haltom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 2:16 AM Subject: [Samba] Automatic Windows Patch Deployment (OS Agnostic) A month ago I mentioned on this list work on a automated package deployment tool for Windows systems, which is server agnostic. At the time, I didn't have the time to put it up in a place for public consumption. I do now. The utility is named wpkg (punny isn't it?) It's nothing more than a simple .js (jscript) file which needs to be run on Windows, from a directory containing three XML files describing packages, hosts, and profiles to be installed on a system. Each package consists of nothing more than a set of command lines to run on install/upgrade/removal, a version number, and a name. When the script is run (preferably as a service at boot, using srvany.exe, or FireDaemon), it checks a local C:\$SYS$\System32\wpkg.xml file, which lists the package entries of locally installed packages, determines which new packages are available, and attempts to install them according to their command lines, and reboots if neccassary. It is very simple, but I've now been running it for a week, with about 10 boxes (about to roll it out to all my systems), and it is totally successful. It's very easy to add new packages, or upgade existing packages, and then force a system wide reboot. I am sending it to the list because I imagine there are similar Windows administrators out there, running Samba (or not) that need a good software deployment utility. Microsoft's SUS sort of requires IIS, SMS isn't much better. Also, I would like people to check it out, and submit patches, or changes, or new features to me, so that I may make use of them too. :) The source code is currently hosted on my subversion repository, at: http://jack.feedbackplusinc.com/svn/repos/wpkg/ Username: guest Password: your email address The package is released under the GPL. (Can one of you license guru's tell me if the GPL is appropiate for a windows patcher written in jscript?) Enjoy. -- My current setup is using this sytem, with FireDaemon to launch the service at start. Soon as Monday rolls around, im going to play with the ResKit's srvany.exe program. -- Jerry Haltom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feedback Plus, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Automatic Windows Patch Deployment (OS Agnostic)
Looking at registry keys. Very good idea. Seems like this could be a check entry for each package, or multiple, that was checked just before install. If it passes, the install isn't actually run, but the entry is made in the local file that the package is in fact installed. Will make bringing a system up to date easy. Good idea! Thanks! GPG: It's not high on MY priority list. I don't need it in my environment. I am only a small office with 30 computers. :) However, it is definatly something I want to do... and plan to do, when time allows. Or somebody could submit patches! Yay for open source! Good day. On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 23:51, Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 12:16, Jerry Haltom wrote: A month ago I mentioned on this list work on a automated package deployment tool for Windows systems, which is server agnostic. At the time, I didn't have the time to put it up in a place for public consumption. I do now. The utility is named wpkg (punny isn't it?) It's nothing more than a simple .js (jscript) file which needs to be run on Windows, from a directory containing three XML files describing packages, hosts, and profiles to be installed on a system. Each package consists of nothing more than a set of command lines to run on install/upgrade/removal, a version number, and a name. When the script is run (preferably as a service at boot, using srvany.exe, or FireDaemon), it checks a local C:\$SYS$\System32\wpkg.xml file, which lists the package entries of locally installed packages, determines which new packages are available, and attempts to install them according to their command lines, and reboots if neccassary. Have you considered making it look in the registry for the hotfix keys? For sites which are not deployed from scratch, this could help move to this central system, without needing to standardise all the machines from scratch. It is very simple, but I've now been running it for a week, with about 10 boxes (about to roll it out to all my systems), and it is totally successful. It's very easy to add new packages, or upgade existing packages, and then force a system wide reboot. I am sending it to the list because I imagine there are similar Windows administrators out there, running Samba (or not) that need a good software deployment utility. Microsoft's SUS sort of requires IIS, SMS isn't much better. Also, I would like people to check it out, and submit patches, or changes, or new features to me, so that I may make use of them too. :) As I mentioned on IRC, the big thing I think it needs is a GPG signature over the patch repository, to try and prevent spoofs. The source code is currently hosted on my subversion repository, at: http://jack.feedbackplusinc.com/svn/repos/wpkg/ Username: guest Password: your email address The package is released under the GPL. (Can one of you license guru's tell me if the GPL is appropiate for a windows patcher written in jscript?) Well, it doesn't have much of a binary form, but the GPL works pretty well for almost anything :-) Enjoy. I certainly will :-) Andrew Bartlett -- My current setup is using this sytem, with FireDaemon to launch the service at start. Soon as Monday rolls around, im going to play with the ResKit's srvany.exe program. -- Jerry Haltom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feedback Plus, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Automatic Windows Patch Deployment (OS Agnostic)
A month ago I mentioned on this list work on a automated package deployment tool for Windows systems, which is server agnostic. At the time, I didn't have the time to put it up in a place for public consumption. I do now. The utility is named wpkg (punny isn't it?) It's nothing more than a simple .js (jscript) file which needs to be run on Windows, from a directory containing three XML files describing packages, hosts, and profiles to be installed on a system. Each package consists of nothing more than a set of command lines to run on install/upgrade/removal, a version number, and a name. When the script is run (preferably as a service at boot, using srvany.exe, or FireDaemon), it checks a local C:\$SYS$\System32\wpkg.xml file, which lists the package entries of locally installed packages, determines which new packages are available, and attempts to install them according to their command lines, and reboots if neccassary. It is very simple, but I've now been running it for a week, with about 10 boxes (about to roll it out to all my systems), and it is totally successful. It's very easy to add new packages, or upgade existing packages, and then force a system wide reboot. I am sending it to the list because I imagine there are similar Windows administrators out there, running Samba (or not) that need a good software deployment utility. Microsoft's SUS sort of requires IIS, SMS isn't much better. Also, I would like people to check it out, and submit patches, or changes, or new features to me, so that I may make use of them too. :) The source code is currently hosted on my subversion repository, at: http://jack.feedbackplusinc.com/svn/repos/wpkg/ Username: guest Password: your email address The package is released under the GPL. (Can one of you license guru's tell me if the GPL is appropiate for a windows patcher written in jscript?) Enjoy. -- My current setup is using this sytem, with FireDaemon to launch the service at start. Soon as Monday rolls around, im going to play with the ResKit's srvany.exe program. -- Jerry Haltom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feedback Plus, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Automatic Windows Patch Deployment (OS Agnostic)
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 12:16, Jerry Haltom wrote: A month ago I mentioned on this list work on a automated package deployment tool for Windows systems, which is server agnostic. At the time, I didn't have the time to put it up in a place for public consumption. I do now. The utility is named wpkg (punny isn't it?) It's nothing more than a simple .js (jscript) file which needs to be run on Windows, from a directory containing three XML files describing packages, hosts, and profiles to be installed on a system. Each package consists of nothing more than a set of command lines to run on install/upgrade/removal, a version number, and a name. When the script is run (preferably as a service at boot, using srvany.exe, or FireDaemon), it checks a local C:\$SYS$\System32\wpkg.xml file, which lists the package entries of locally installed packages, determines which new packages are available, and attempts to install them according to their command lines, and reboots if neccassary. Have you considered making it look in the registry for the hotfix keys? For sites which are not deployed from scratch, this could help move to this central system, without needing to standardise all the machines from scratch. It is very simple, but I've now been running it for a week, with about 10 boxes (about to roll it out to all my systems), and it is totally successful. It's very easy to add new packages, or upgade existing packages, and then force a system wide reboot. I am sending it to the list because I imagine there are similar Windows administrators out there, running Samba (or not) that need a good software deployment utility. Microsoft's SUS sort of requires IIS, SMS isn't much better. Also, I would like people to check it out, and submit patches, or changes, or new features to me, so that I may make use of them too. :) As I mentioned on IRC, the big thing I think it needs is a GPG signature over the patch repository, to try and prevent spoofs. The source code is currently hosted on my subversion repository, at: http://jack.feedbackplusinc.com/svn/repos/wpkg/ Username: guest Password: your email address The package is released under the GPL. (Can one of you license guru's tell me if the GPL is appropiate for a windows patcher written in jscript?) Well, it doesn't have much of a binary form, but the GPL works pretty well for almost anything :-) Enjoy. I certainly will :-) Andrew Bartlett -- My current setup is using this sytem, with FireDaemon to launch the service at start. Soon as Monday rolls around, im going to play with the ResKit's srvany.exe program. -- Jerry Haltom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feedback Plus, Inc. -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
