Re: [wpkg-users] Logging enhancement request

2008-02-18 Thread Falko Trojahn
grubi -- 16.02.2008 15:39: Hi Florian, You could add the date to the filename, see config.xml for details. That is what we already did. Currently we have [HOSTNAME]-[]-[MM]-[DD] which of course do not prevent the log to be overwritten during necessary reboots. Sure we could also add

Re: [wpkg-users] Are we now at stable for the 1.2 release of WPKG Client?

2008-03-07 Thread Falko Trojahn
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: Falko Trojahn schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: matt - OpenPlan IT schrieb: Hello all, I was just downloading the WPKG client and noticed that there is a 1.2 release in the stable directory uploaded on the 15 of Feb. I was wondering whether this was the one

Re: [wpkg-users] Old version reinstall - WPKG is nice but it still needs improve

2008-03-27 Thread Falko Trojahn
REM Cleanup call %INSTALL_LOC%cleanup.cmd exit /B %EXIT_CODE% Thanx in advance, Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 SMI Softmark Informationstechnologien GmbH Sitz: D-04416 Markkleeberg, Friedrich-Ebert-Str

Re: [wpkg-users] install the wpkg client manually

2008-03-28 Thread Falko Trojahn
wgalogon.dll? Is it registered when wpkgsrv /install is started? And is there something like wpkgsrv /uninstall? Something for the wiki, too :) Thank you for your good work! Best regards, Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295

Re: [wpkg-users] install the wpkg client manually

2008-03-29 Thread Falko Trojahn
Tomasz Chmielewski -- 28.03.2008 20:29: Perhaps the possibility to download a zip with the wpkg client files without the installer/msi would be nice to have, a small script - something like - net stop wpkgservice xcopy /v /s /i /e /h /c /y /q

Re: [wpkg-users] Profile inconsistency when using separate files instead of a single file

2008-03-31 Thread Falko Trojahn
and/or logfile and try to find out why the xml files have not been processed (missing xml headers, I guess?) If you cannot find the reason, send us the log file. Best regards, Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 SMI

Re: [wpkg-users] Profile inconsistency when using separate files instead of a single file

2008-03-31 Thread Falko Trojahn
Sébastien BEAUDLOT ecrit: Could you please create a logfile using wpkg.js /debug (see wpkg.js /help or http://wpkg.org/WPKG_flags#Rarely_used_parameters)? Have a look at the messages and/or logfile and try to find out why the xml files have not been processed (missing xml headers, I guess?)

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

2008-04-02 Thread Falko Trojahn
- Do you use WPKG? Tell us how! http://wpkg.org/Testimonials ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users -- Falko Trojahn

Re: [wpkg-users] wpkg.js crashing?

2008-04-21 Thread Falko Trojahn
Jens Geile schrieb: So it seems that when eventlog is full wpkg fails to do anything. And because the eventlog is already full it cannot even log why it failed. While testing this I found that using param name='quiet' value='false' / in config.xml seems to break WPKG. WPKG starts and

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

2008-06-18 Thread Falko Trojahn
is included in profile1 for the common hosts hosts definitions: host name=ws-0026 profile-id=profile2 / ... host name=ws-.+ profile-id=profile1 / report.pl gives: WS-0026: acrobat8 DBv: 5 PCv: Any hints? thanx in advance Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl-Ingenieur

Re: [wpkg-users] Silent uninstall ActiveState Perl

2008-06-27 Thread Falko Trojahn
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: Jennette, Steven J. schrieb: Where can I find the correct Id to uninstall Perl? This is my uninstall command currently remove cmd='msiexec /qb /x {49C69876-0196-4620-B237-EA334C2E40B5}' /. I get this error when I run it, “This action is only valid for those

Re: [wpkg-users] Ideas for features.

2008-07-01 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, 2) Extra check rules; I have Battery checks; to detect laptops, Disk Size/Free checks; to prevent installs clogged up and failing from disk space problems, RAM checks; to stop installs failing because of pre-requisites. Hmm, shouldn't the installer check these requirements

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG Client 1.3.4 released (testing release), including 64 bit support

2008-07-08 Thread Falko Trojahn
. Perhaps a button / link to open the application event log of the pc there I (re)started wpkg would be ok, too. Opening the event log of the pc and filter for WSH is perhaps easier to integrate in wpkginst than opening the log file for the client, isn't it? Best regards, Falko -- Falko Trojahn

Re: [wpkg-users] wpkg.js execution error

2008-08-08 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Andreas, I have a problem with deploying WPKG on on of our machines. wpkg.js stops execution early during config intialization. When run as a service I get an event log entry with event id 1: Message: Object expected Description: Object expected Error code: 800a138f Stack: undefined

Re: [wpkg-users] Basic Question

2008-09-05 Thread Falko Trojahn
But it seems there are revision numbers supported with 2 dots, not with 3: 2.4.0.1 is recognised as 2.4.0 as was tested here: http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120#c2 But I'd anyway use revision numbers without dots, too. Regards, Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294

Re: [wpkg-users] deploy to a pilot group first?

2008-09-23 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Kent, Kent Tong wrote: However, I'd like to deploy it to pilot group first. To avoid deploying to all users, I can't modify the existing package. It means I have to create a new package. If they have the same package id, then it will confuse wpkg, right? If they have different

Re: [wpkg-users] deploy to a pilot group first?

2008-09-23 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, first: please don't top post / full quote, thank you. mscdex wrote: Why not just create a new profile (called pilot or something) that contains the package to test, and then in your hosts.xml add this new profile to selected hosts that are to pilot the new package. You would still have

Re: [wpkg-users] problem with interactive installers

2008-09-24 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi Aleks, My organization has been using WPKG for the past month or two, and it's been great -- much better than repackaging! :) In the past few days, however, I've noticed a few weird issues with WPKG when it's run as a scheduled task. Specifically: - The Firefox installer hangs. for

Re: [wpkg-users] problem with interactive installers

2008-09-25 Thread Falko Trojahn
Just answering myself ... forgot something. Falko Trojahn -- 25.09.2008 07:54: Hi Aleks, My organization has been using WPKG for the past month or two, and it's been great -- much better than repackaging! :) In the past few days, however, I've noticed a few weird issues with WPKG when it's

[wpkg-users] 11722 and XML errors with 1.3.6

2009-01-29 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi Tomasz, I like the new Wpkginst interface, especially the features for running on shutdown and the possibility to start/stop a wpkg service on a remote machine. Nevertheless, FYI, I've got the following problems: a) regarding settings file in case of installation: In Wpkginst, when I have at

Re: [wpkg-users] 11722 and XML errors with 1.3.6

2009-01-29 Thread Falko Trojahn
a) regarding settings file in case of installation: ... Manually editing settings.xml with logon delay 0 is only successful when importing manually within Wpkginst, but not with --SETTINGSFILE=... on install. Forget a), this was a stupid local problem - sorry. Thanx, Falko

Re: [wpkg-users] PDF to Word Doc Converter v1.1

2009-02-14 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Adam, Adam Williams -- 05.02.2009 17:35: Has anyone gotten PDF to Word Doc Converter v1.1 at www.hellopdf.com to work with WPKG? I've tried every flag listed at ... using http://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract you can extract the pdf2wordsetup.exe. You get a directory with just

Re: [wpkg-users] Questions about WPKG client configuration

2009-03-10 Thread Falko Trojahn
Luca Manganelli schrieb: Some questions: 1) remote deploying clients with settings.xml if I put the parameter SETTINGSFILE the path of a settings.xml in a shared folder, the client uses that file or a local copy? settings.xml is imported manually, on install of WPKG Client, or via

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox and proxy settings

2009-03-10 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi again, in the wiki, in order to put proxy servers automatically in firefox, you had to put two file, all.js and mozilla.cfg (see http://wpkg.org/Firefox#Locking_user_preferences_.2F_Firefox_settings_for_all_users_.28like_proxy_etc..29 ) but it don't tell how to put these commands in

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox and popup whitelist

2009-03-11 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Daniel, Seeing some activities about firefox, I have a question: Does anyone of you succeed to manage the pop up white list ? I search the web, ask on #firefox, it seems to be sqlite databases with firefox3, like for bookmarks (which are “places” now). I want to add some

Re: [wpkg-users] Recording registry changes

2009-03-17 Thread Falko Trojahn
Anders Nilsson schrieb: I'm looking for a recommendation of a program to record registry changes (and possibly file changes) when installing software, or plugging in hardware for that matter. Anyway, any suggestions for such programs? InCtrl5 should do the trick, you find it by

Re: [wpkg-users] Old program installing then uninstalling

2009-03-17 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi Mark, However one machine is constantly installing then uninstalling an old app that doesn't appear in any profile. The app in question is the Dia app from the tutorial on setting up wpkg. I cant work out why this is happening as the package is not in a profile? could you please send

Re: [wpkg-users] Uninstallation of Autocad 2009

2009-04-23 Thread Falko Trojahn
For your problem: I think we must see the full log with /logLevel=0xff, How can I set that level? I do this on client: cscript \\net\wpkg.js /debug /synchronize /nonotify /sendstatus /logLevel=0xff and the output is same as before... You did send the console output which is created

Re: [wpkg-users] Uninstallation of Autocad 2009

2009-04-24 Thread Falko Trojahn
Good morning, BTW: If you test wpkg.js on command line and if you use %SOFTWARE% variable in your packages, don't forget to set SOFTWARE=... before running cscript wpkg.js ... - this is a common mistake I always make when testing something manually ... You can set this variable in xml

Re: [wpkg-users] Uninstallation of Autocad 2009

2009-04-24 Thread Falko Trojahn
If you test wpkg.js on command line and if you use %SOFTWARE% variable in your packages, don't forget to set SOFTWARE=... before running cscript wpkg.js ... - this is a common mistake I always make when testing something manually ... You can set this variable in xml config files as well -

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 149] Specify prerequisites for a package

2009-05-04 Thread Falko Trojahn
bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.wpkg.org schrieb: http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149 --- Comment #8 from Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org 2009-03-30 23:18:50 --- As I said a custom execute check can be configured already now. This check could verify if the application should be

Re: [wpkg-users] Problem with Java installer

2009-05-11 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi Luca, I have a problem with the java official installer. With WPKG it installs completely, but at the end it freezes (the java installer never exits...). So I have two options: - the WPKG timeout; - I kill the java installer process Do you know this problem? please have a look

Re: [wpkg-users] Uninstallation of Autocad 2009

2009-05-13 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Luca, thanx for the logs - just for the record, here your original question: I have a question. On a PC I've installed Autocad 2009, all OK. Then I opened the host.xml and removed the profile entry of AutoCad 2009, to uninstall it on that pc. At the synchronization, I see this log:

Re: [wpkg-users] RPC server unavailable

2009-05-15 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello, Trying wpkg.js 1.1.0-M30 on windows XP I have the following errors: --8---cut here---start-8--- 2009-05-15 14:46:05, ERROR : Error when searching registry sub-keys at 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'|Code: 800706ba;

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG Server 1.1.0 breaks packages working in 1.0.4

2009-05-26 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Stefan, I have successfully used WPKG 1.0.4, so I switched to 1.1.0 for production, this breaks some of my packages. 1st case: install cmd='%SOFTWARE%\Acrobat Reader\AdbeRdr910_de_DE.exe /sAll /rs /l /msi /qn EULA_ACCEPT=YES SUPPRESS_APP_LAUNCH=YES AgreeToLicense=Yes

Re: [wpkg-users] package is run one more time after removal

2009-06-03 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Simon, Rainer Meier wrote: However the issue you face with your packages might come from the fact that you did not specify appropriate checks for the packages. From your description I have to assume that you do not specify any checks. As a result the WPKG-internal isInstalled()

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox installation problems

2009-06-03 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi Luca, 3) Bookmarks toolbar blank problem If I drag a link in the bookmarks toolbar, it is blank all time. How can I fix this? Up. Anyone? Another problem: on the Bookmarks menu, the submenu that shows the items of Bookmarks Toolbar doesn't have the name... Never had such

Re: [wpkg-users] uninstall program not installed by wpkg

2009-06-05 Thread Falko Trojahn
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: Andrea Zagli wrote: is there a way to uninstall with wpkg a program not installed with wpkg? i would like to remove the msoffice demo (and others demo) from new pcs You can create a msoffice-demov-removal package, where you would have removal instructions (with

Re: [wpkg-users] [OT] wpkgExpress first release

2009-06-26 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Brian, Hello all, I just thought I'd drop a line here and let everyone know I've released the first version of wpkgExpress. It is available for all to try out at the google code site here: http://code.google.com/p/wpkgexpress/ As I mentioned in my blog, I recognize there are places

Re: [wpkg-users] [OT] wpkgExpress first release

2009-06-28 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, thanks for your I just tried the rc2 release and get the same problem ... Here is the trace of my apache2 ... I'm not able to replicate this issue. There is not supposed to be a physical installer directory. wpkgExpress uses CakePHP which is an MVC framework. Installer is the

Re: [wpkg-users] msiexec 1619 error in Boot Camp but not in Parallels

2009-07-15 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi I'm in the middle of implementing WPKG to manage the Windows side on a bunch of Macs running Boot Camp. I've been doing my testing on an instance of Windows XP in Parallels on my own machine without a problem. However, when I install the WPKG client in Boot Camp and import the settings

Re: [wpkg-users] wpkgCreateReport

2009-09-10 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, New bugfixing release of wpkgCreateReport can be found at: http://www.gig-mbh.de/edv/software/wpkgtools/wpkg-create-report-english.htm at first: thanx for this nice work. But, for some of my PCs, I get a S:\install\wpkg\report\createReport.js(881, 7) Laufzeitfehler in Microsoft

Re: [wpkg-users] disable debug

2009-09-18 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, Jacob Jarick wrote: Hi, I have param name='logLevel' value='1' / Set in config.xml but my clients still log a very large amount of debug output: ~~~SNIP 2009-09-18 11:39:03, DEBUG : Initialized temporary local log file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\wpkg-logInit.log 2009-09-18 11:39:03,

Re: [wpkg-users] When will WPKG Client for AMD64 get official

2009-09-23 Thread Falko Trojahn
Vladimir Psenicka schrieb: I know what is causing this error: enabled offline mode! When I disable offline mode in wpkgclient everything works fine in XP and XP64. Same here: XP within VMWare - any news on that? BTW: When in wpkginst.exe, clicking on Start/Stop at tools tab does nothing -

Re: [wpkg-users] When will WPKG Client for AMD64 get official

2009-09-23 Thread Falko Trojahn
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: Falko Trojahn wrote: Vladimir Psenicka schrieb: I know what is causing this error: enabled offline mode! When I disable offline mode in wpkgclient everything works fine in XP and XP64. Same here: XP within VMWare - any news on that? BTW: When in wpkginst.exe

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 175] Test return value of removeSettingsNode function

2009-10-04 Thread Falko Trojahn
or send a patch, so we can see what and why you need a modded version. Thanx, Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 SMI Softmark Informationstechnologien GmbH Sitz: D-04416 Markkleeberg, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 51

Re: [wpkg-users] wrapper settings path mismatch problem

2009-10-05 Thread Falko Trojahn
Marco Gaiarin schrieb: Mandi! Falko Trojahn In chel di` si favelave... usually I do such upgrade things using a package, see attached. A little question: why use: cmd /c start /min msiexec on install and simply only 'msiexec' on upgrade? I'm curious... ;))) Hmm

Re: [wpkg-users] How does check work with upgrades please

2009-10-07 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi! simplesi schrieb: Just a simple question as I've never used checks before :) Are checks just used for the install command? No. Are they ignored when a package revision is incremented and the upgrade command is executed? Or can you have separate check conditions for an upgrade?

Re: [wpkg-users] Prevent install and uninstall only for certain profiles/applications

2009-11-09 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello, Kevin Keane -- 05.11.2009 04:54: My problem is that I would like to leave some software untouched - similar to what the /noremove switch does globally, but only limited to one particular package in one profile. Specifically, my problem is with Microsoft Office. I have to have a

Re: [wpkg-users] Computer account

2009-11-20 Thread Falko Trojahn
le dahut ecrit: I hope there will be a way to use computer account because I can't let a share writeable to nobody nor I can use a domain account for WPKG client. Those 2 solutions are not secure enough. I use log- and status-writing to samba share without problems, running wpkg client as

Re: [wpkg-users] InnoSetup Uninstall

2009-12-09 Thread Falko Trojahn
Bonjour! I'm testing WPKG, I'm very happy with it but I've a little problem : every InnoSetup doesn't uninstall correctly. With /VERYSILENT /NORESTART or only with /VERYSILENT I get exit code=1. After this failed uninstall, only the file unin000.exe is present in the application directory

Re: [wpkg-users] remove xps printer (winxp/win2k3)

2010-03-26 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, Natxo Asenjo wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: I'm not sure if you can remove printers on a systemwide basis; it's a per-user setting. You may want to do this in a logon script instead of using wpkg. network printers, yes. But

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 183] Downgrade should fall back to Upgrade when no downgrade rules exist

2010-05-04 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Rainer, Jason, list :) let me attach my opinion to this discussion. So I change revision=4 to revision=3.6.3 for Firefox (let's assume, for the sake of clarity, that the package revision 4 had previously installed Firefox 3.6.2) As far as WPKG is concerned, this is a downgrade, so it

Re: [wpkg-users] Extended hosts matches

2010-05-28 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Daniel, So feel free to create a patch for the current version of WPKG which might be applied for these users who need it. I am personally OK with the delivery of this patch even as part of the official shipment but I don't plan yet to introduce this code in the stable release of WPKG.

Re: [wpkg-users] Extended hosts matches

2010-06-07 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 07.06.2010 15:28, schrieb Daniel Dehennin: Daniel Dehennin daniel.dehen...@ac-caen.fr writes: [...] I change testall.cmd to run tests in order: [...] Thanx, nice idea, I'll check this in. Oops, I send it to fast, in fact I have a problem, I need to specify command-line

Re: [wpkg-users] Extended hosts matches

2010-06-08 Thread Falko Trojahn
Bonjour Daniel, Falko Trojahn nospam...@smi-softmark.de writes: [...] Well, up to now, all command line parameters have had their counterpart in config.xml, so no need to specify command line parameters. No, the /host, /query, /install, /remove, /upgrade does not have

Re: [wpkg-users] A few quick questions

2010-07-02 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Donny, Here at work, we are using an older verison of wpkg (most clients are using 1.0.0.8-1.0.0.18 and the server is 0.9.8) and I would like to do a two-fold deal here: use the current wpkg installation to push out a new wpkg installation and point that new installation to a new

Re: [wpkg-users] Registry Check failing

2010-08-02 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, Neither the registry path 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UpgradeCodes\AA5D9C68C00F12943B2F6CA09FE28244' nor its expanded value of 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UpgradeCodes\AA5D9C68C00F12943B2F6CA09FE28244' exist: the check failed I

Re: [wpkg-users] Script execution failure

2010-08-10 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello James, I am currently testing WPKG so as we can deploy it across our network. Have run into a problem when using with wpkgExpress. for all problems related to wpkgExpress, please use the wpkg-Express mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/wpkgexpress-support?hl=en In our set up

Re: [wpkg-users] possibly a function request

2010-10-01 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Michael, I came across this in the package definitions... download url='http://wpkg.example.com/installers/some.msi' target=installers\some.msi / I wondered if the downloadfile function could be alternately handled by BITS or another tool (robocopy/ftp/rsync) to give you a

Re: [wpkg-users] problems with Firefox Extensions

2010-10-20 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Lewis, I have some problems with the Firefox Extension install packages I found here: http://wpkg.org/Firefox_ext_install_downloads the script install-extensions.cmd give some errors about access denied Excatly the error is at the following line: set id=%line:~8,-9% the variables

Re: [wpkg-users] Error [Scanned]

2010-10-29 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi! Now I'm using the recent version. Fine. 2010-10-29 08:07:21, ERROR : Error parsing xml 'C:\WPKG\config.xml': A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found.||File C:\WPKG\config.xml|Line 374|Linepos 44|Filepos 13931|srcTextparam

Re: [wpkg-users] Updating XAMPP

2010-12-17 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Malte, i found out how to install xampp silently, would you please share it with us, creating a corresponding page at wpkg.org? Thanx. Hi Falko, i am new to wpkg, very new. I use it since this week. You're welcome! I will have a look at how to create a page at wpkg.org, but first i

Re: [wpkg-users] Bug in wpkg 1.1.2

2010-12-27 Thread Falko Trojahn
grubi -- 26.12.2010 17:57: Found the following bug in 1.1.2: removeSetitngsNode(packageNode, true); should read removeSettingsNode(packageNode, true); instead. This typo leads to an exception when using the noremove switch. This has already been corrected in SVN:

Re: [wpkg-users] Inventory Collection

2011-01-06 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 28.12.2010 19:29, schrieb Mark Lintern: Does WPKG have the capability to inventory product keys off of the machines it's running on? Sorry for the late reply. We do it the following way, since OCS is not capable of reading all needed keys: package id=keyfinder name=Find all

Re: [wpkg-users] Running wpkg.js as System Account

2011-01-06 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 06.01.2011 16:45, schrieb LAPLAUD François: Hi again, In fact i was wrong sorry, the TEMP var is correctly initialized... My problem is totally different from what I previously said : I am making tests of remotely running the wpkg.js script using System Account by using psexec like below

Re: [wpkg-users] Running wpkg.js as System Account

2011-01-07 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 07.01.2011 08:50, schrieb LAPLAUD François: 2011/1/6 LAPLAUD François lapl...@sdis72.fr ... All is going well except that I get this error message : [...] Initialized temporary local log file: C:\Windows\TEMP\wpkg-logInit.log Initializing new log file:

Re: [wpkg-users] Running wpkg.js as System Account

2011-01-07 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, Falko: If I remember correctly, you use psexec. Could you make a test please, using Wpkg Client? You could trigger Wpkg Client remotely, too, if you just set the Wpkg Service to run manual and trigger the service start via psexec. Wpkg client works flawlessly here on W7, just doesn't show

Re: [wpkg-users] Running wpkg.js as System Account

2011-01-07 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 07.01.2011 16:38, schrieb LAPLAUD François: After lots of testings, i think one of my problems is the fact i scheduled short period (2 minutes) for the scheduled task. Multiplied by about 100 testing computers, my server generate authentication error messages maybe because there are too

Re: [wpkg-users] Where can I set %SOFTWARE% environment variable?

2011-02-07 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, Hi, as subject. Where can I set the SOFTWARE env variable used in the xml files? Usually, you set the variable in Wpkg Client settings. So, if you have different deployment servers, each client can use another one. But it's possible, too, to set it in e.g. profiles.xml like this:

Re: [wpkg-users] profile question

2011-02-18 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, On 18.02.2011 10:22, wrote Natxo Asenjo: hi, is it possible to apply a profile depending on the result of a command? I think this should be possible with recent wpkg.js versions: - create a package checkpkg which has one (or more) execute check(s) http://wpkg.org/Packages.xml#Execute -

Re: [wpkg-users] profile question

2011-02-21 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 21.02.2011 14:14, schrieb Natxo Asenjo: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Falko Trojahn nospam...@smi-softmark.de wrote: Hi, On 18.02.2011 10:22, wrote Natxo Asenjo: hi, is it possible to apply a profile depending on the result of a command? I think this should be possible with recent

Re: [wpkg-users] déploiement wpkg client

2011-03-03 Thread Falko Trojahn
Bonjour, la langue de cette liste de diffusion c'est Anglais. Je vous prie de renvoyer votre message en Anglais. At 03.03.2011 14:54, Gregory LAVILLA wrote: L'installation du msi depuis une GPO (domaine 2003) fonctione, mais est extremement longue : 1H30… Nous déployons pourtant de nombreuses

Re: [wpkg-users] déploiement wpkg client

2011-03-03 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 03.03.2011 15:42, schrieb Gregory LAVILLA: Hello, To improve our deployment system, we are testing WPKG in my compagny. It is running fine, but we have a problem with automatic deployment of msi client. - We can manually install msi (by doubliclic on it, or by runnign

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG uninstalls unmanaged software?

2011-06-09 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Kevin, Included is the requested information. The log file ends abruptly because the antivirus removal reboots the computer. No, this computer has definitely never seen WPKG. WPKG client is also not installed. I made a mistake in my problem report. Originally, I

Re: [wpkg-users] Replace xmlhttp download with curl/wget

2011-07-14 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello, So maybe we could (optionally) have an external tool handle the download tag - curl or wget are excellent specialised (and free/GPL) tools. Pros: * much more robust than the WSH download method * saves memory * faster (probably because of the memory savings) * Support not only for HTTP,

Re: [wpkg-users] Replace xmlhttp download with curl/wget

2011-07-14 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 14.07.2011 14:55, schrieb heiko.hel...@horiba.com: So we can have predefined options for e.g. wget or curl in wpkg.js, while preserving the possibility to use another tool. ...eg, a script (cmd suffices?!) that also check the MD5 of the file, preventing wpkg tring to install ever an ever

Re: [wpkg-users] Thunderbird extensions

2011-07-15 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, Am 14.07.2011 20:05, schrieb Stefan Pendl: On 7/14/2011 12:02 PM, John Danks wrote: That's the same type of package definition I use for TB add-ons. I'd double-check that you extracted the XPI correctly and see if it's actually getting copied to the correct place. sogo-integrator is not

Re: [wpkg-users] Windows 7 (and windows XP) : a method to run wpkg at shutdown

2011-07-20 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 20.07.2011 12:18, schrieb Bruno CHOQUET: Windows 7 (and windows XP) : a method to run wpkg at shutdown Merci, Bruno. Here you find another method for using Wpkg with Windows 7: http://code.google.com/p/wpkg-gp/ A+ Falko

Re: [wpkg-users] Flash Player. 11.0.1.152 ax Problem

2011-10-13 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Stefan, at first: thanx for the package and your contributions for Wpkg. I have this package running successfully on Win2k, WinXP, Vista and Win7 at home. At work it runs fine on Server 2k3, 2k8 and 2k8 R2. There only seems to be a problem with Server 2k. What does the debug log tell

Re: [wpkg-users] Flash Player. 11.0.1.152 ax Problem

2011-10-14 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Stefan, Nothing - only ... failed checking after installation, which is true, as IE doesn't have Flash Player installed and there is no entry in Systemsteuerung-Software vor Flash Player ActiveX. Perhaps something with this workstation only - may be I have to reinstall XP. it's XP 32

Re: [wpkg-users] Flash Player. 11.0.1.152 ax Problem

2011-10-18 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Stefan, I have just checked and the Win2k systems where FP11 fails to install don't have VC++ Redistributables 2008 installed. Might be worth a try. VC++ redists had been on the system, but after all I had success doing the following: Using IE I opened

Re: [wpkg-users] Flash Player. 11.0.1.152 ax Problem

2011-11-17 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, Meanwhile I did go back to a snapshot from 2008 of this machine - but even now, neither manual install using install_flash_player_32bit.exe nor via wpkg works. Installation shows 100% - Fertig and it's not there. Really strange, but not essential ... I can wait for next flash_player 11

Re: [wpkg-users] Delayed sevice start

2011-11-24 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Alan, Consider also: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305293 I am only too aware of that, and in the domain always ensure it is set in Group policy to wait for the network. However XP Home edition can't join a domain, and I haven't found an

Re: [wpkg-users] Delayed sevice start

2011-11-24 Thread Falko Trojahn
Am 24.11.2011 20:29, schrieb Alan Adams: In message4ece0e82.3080...@smi-softmark.de you wrote: Am 22.11.2011 18:32, schrieb Alan Adams: For the former case I have had to resort to a scheduled task running every 15 minutes doing net stop and net start on the service. There doesn't seem to be

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox 8 and extension deployment

2011-12-07 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Claudio, On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 00:58:59 -0800 (PST), chiddie claudio.ghira...@geniaware.com wrote: My tries went in a different direction. Since i like basic commands and not being involved too much with variables, i simply: ... - install cmd='%COMSPEC% /C xcopy /E /Y

Re: [wpkg-users] Push Install WPKG with Psexec

2011-12-09 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello again, The server from which i ran the psexec command runs Windows 2003 R2 x64, while the target PC runs Windows XP x64. So, again, what am i doing wrong? I really don't know what else to try, i follwed the instructions step by step (apart from putting the .xml files on the root

Re: [wpkg-users] Batch file not working

2011-12-12 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi, The .bat contains the following lines: cd /D %userprofile%\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\Profiles for /D %%f in (*.default) do cd %userprofile%\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\Profiles\%%f\ rd extensions /s /q I then added the corrispondent line to the package install

Re: [wpkg-users] Batch file not working

2011-12-13 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello Claudio, Yeah, the problem in using a logon script is that it should be timed to run exactely after Thunderbird upgrade and before the new Lightning install. I don't think it's possible. that's a problem, indeed. If I remember well, some time ago people on this list used two wpkg

Re: [wpkg-users] Strange behavior of WPKG Client

2011-12-16 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello again, Ri-hello everybody (i know you hate me from the bottom of your hearts), never mind :) ... Is there a way to try and track the reason why on these machines WPKG Client cannot see that is installed yet (of course i can provide the full debug log if needed)? What version of

Re: [wpkg-users] Strange behavior of WPKG Client

2011-12-19 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello, I could imagine that on these machines the wpkg service has no rights to write wpkg.xml into c:\windows\system32. Is the wpkg.xml file there? I'm using the last WPKG server (1.3) and the last WPKG CLient. === Event Type: Error

Re: [wpkg-users] Strange behavior of WPKG Client

2011-12-20 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello, Stefan Pendl-2 wrote: Am 19.12.2011 14:55, schrieb chiddie: But should not i have seen before something like: === 2011-12-19 14:30:04, DEBUG : Profiles applying to the current host:|IncrediBuild Agent| |WPKG_client|

Re: [wpkg-users] Strange behavior of WPKG Client

2011-12-20 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hi again, I understood that it's not normal behavior. Usually the clients will have only one profile (the standard application one) on which i will chain all the packges one by one. The multiple profile issue was caused by the fact that in order to test one specific package i had to add an

Re: [wpkg-users] Strange behavior of WPKG Client

2011-12-20 Thread Falko Trojahn
chiddie -- 20.12.2011 17:42: === Yes. In this case you can do: host name=yourpcname profile-id=default profile id=testprofile / /host === I simply didhost name=mypcname profile-id=TestProfile / in order not to

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox zombie state

2012-04-04 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello, On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:22:01 +0200, Bruno CHOQUET bruno.choq...@unicaen.fr wrote: With Windows 7 32bit sp1, I have zombie state with firefox 6.02, an idea ? (no problem with Windows XP) variable name=architecture value=x86 / This is the problem - you define architecture to always be

Re: [wpkg-users] Firefox zombie state

2012-04-04 Thread Falko Trojahn
d'Alençon. correspondant informatique du site universitaire d'Alençon. http://www.unicaen.fr/iutalencon Tel : 02.33.80.85.10 Le 04/04/2012 11:41, Falko Trojahn a écrit : Hello, On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:22:01 +0200, Bruno CHOQUET bruno.choq...@unicaen.fr wrote: With Windows 7 32bit sp1

Re: [wpkg-users] error after installing avast 7 free antivirus

2012-04-20 Thread Falko Trojahn
Hello , I'm trying to install avast 7 free antivirus with wpkg on windows 7. The package seems to install all right, after reboot I get avast antivirus up and running but in windows logs I see the following: Could not process (install) package 'Avast! Free Antivirus' (avast): Exit

Re: [wpkg-users] all packages launch at the same time

2012-11-27 Thread Falko Trojahn
do you use, contents of the xml file of this package, full debug log from session there the failure occurs. Best regards, Falko -- Your's sincerely - Mit freundlichen Grüßen - Reçevez mes salutations distinguées Falko Trojahn http://www.trojahn.de