GAM Update Checks

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John Dombrowski

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Nov 21, 2013, 8:47:38 AM11/21/13
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Hello All, I am using a VBScript to automatically create and run a GAM.bat file based off of exports from my Student Management System.  Periodically, the gam.bat file will halt because it wants to check for updates.

Is there a way to permanently disable the check for updates feature?  If I click "n", it will go a few days without asking, then it will ask again.

Thanks,

John Dombrowski
Thornapple Kellogg Schools

Jay Lee

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Nov 21, 2013, 8:55:01 AM11/21/13
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Yes, just create a blank text file called "noupdatecheck.txt" in the same folder as gam.exe or gam.py. This disables all update checks.

Be sure to check here regularly to make sure you're staying up to date with the latest GAM releases.


Regards,

Jay Lee
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Schmidt, Randal

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Nov 21, 2013, 10:52:08 AM11/21/13
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Just create a text file called:

noupdatecheck.txt

in the GAM directory.

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John Dombrowski

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Nov 25, 2013, 8:52:15 AM11/25/13
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Thank you Jay and Randal.


On Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:55:01 AM UTC-5, Jay Lee wrote:
Yes, just create a blank text file called "noupdatecheck.txt" in the same folder as gam.exe or gam.py. This disables all update checks.

Be sure to check here regularly to make sure you're staying up to date with the latest GAM releases.


Regards,

Jay Lee
Director of Google Apps Deployments   |  Dito


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:47 AM, John Dombrowski <jdomb...@tkschools.org> wrote:
Hello All, I am using a VBScript to automatically create and run a GAM.bat file based off of exports from my Student Management System.  Periodically, the gam.bat file will halt because it wants to check for updates.

Is there a way to permanently disable the check for updates feature?  If I click "n", it will go a few days without asking, then it will ask again.

Thanks,

John Dombrowski
Thornapple Kellogg Schools

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Walter Moore

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We are fairly new users of GAM. We discovered this also, the hard way, with our change password scripting.

I suggest that having an unexpected interactive prompt is not the right way to handle this. It would be better to nag - even on every run - with a couple lines pointing out that it is out of date rather than disrupt scripting in an unpredictable manner.

Graham Ingleby

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Mar 24, 2015, 6:04:06 AM3/24/15
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Hi Walter

You create a blank text file called "noupdatecheck.txt" in the same folder as gam.exe or gam.py. This disables all update checks.

Graham

 

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