Re: [wpkg-users] Start WPKG service with run at shutdown

2010-06-21 Thread Gerd Ott
Daniel Dehennin schrieb: Hello, I'm using WPKG client on workstations with run on shutdown to avoid user annoyance. [...] I plan to create a shutdown task, late at night, but I need to permit users to cancel the shutdown if they are using the computer. I found shut it[1] which

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG Client 1.3.10 released (testing release)

2010-01-26 Thread Gerd Ott
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: Can you try: http://wpkg.org/files/client/beta/1.3.11/ (the previous one started the installation as SYSTEM, and not a running user, so it could be that it was not able to access settings.xml). Hello, 1.3.11 installs and works fine on XP here. The old

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG Client 1.3.10 released (testing release)

2010-01-25 Thread Gerd Ott
support personnel or package vendor. Action _A9459942_EE79_497A_9080_F39DDA8A7B80, location: C:\Programme\wpkg\wpkginst.exe, command: --SETTINGSFILE= Greetings, Gerd Ott - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG Client 1.3.2 released (testing release) / execution on the system shutdown

2008-06-15 Thread Gerd Ott
Yes, it works without a execute before script ! (Even if there is an eventlog error saying Starting WPKG on shutdown) I had as well a script running execute before, which was just updating the wpkg-settings. (%PROGRAMFILES%\WPKG\wpkginst.exe --SETTINGSFILE=\\server\share\settings.xml) After

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG Client 1.3.2 released (testing release) / execution on the system shutdown

2008-06-13 Thread Gerd Ott
Hallo, Scheduling the execution on system shutdown works fine on a XP-System here. Thanks for your investment! On a win2000 testbox (SP4, all windows-updates, installer 3.1) execution does not start on shutdown, no errors in eventlog. Perhaps it's even not possible with this OS-version?

Re: [wpkg-users] Ugly perl script to check if packages are installed on a set of workstations.

2008-04-01 Thread Gerd Ott
Hi, Your report.pl is not ugly, it's pretty pretty! Works fine for me after adjusting the locations, even if perl -W (v5.8.8) is saying: Using a hash as a reference is deprecated. BTW. If I copy the statusfiles to a share using a wpkg-package like

Re: [wpkg-users] %SOFTWARE% variable

2008-02-18 Thread Gerd Ott
Hi all, I also was confused, because variables defined in wpkg-client are not expanded, if you test your installation from the command line manually with /debug flag. So I think for testing/debugging packages with variables defined in the client one has to use the wpkg-client and set Show in