Installation order for installing dockutil script

[Kostas Backas-Gmail]

Hello all and a Happy New Year!

In a new installation I need to run a dockutil script via outset but only after the other software installation finishes. Does munki installs things in alphabetical order, so I can set the last package as requirement for the script package?

Best regards

Kostas

[Graham Gilbert]

Or an update_for

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[Kostas Backas-Gmail]

Thanks, but how I determine the _last_ package?

[Gregory Neagle]

Outset runs scripts at startup or at user login. Why does it matter when Munki _installs_ these scripts?

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[Kostas Backas-Gmail]

Because there are new machines and the software must exist for dockutil to place it into dock. Munki will install the software and last the dockutil once script comes.

[Gregory Neagle]

But the script will not run until the next restart or login; presumably after Munki has installed everything…

[Kostas Backas-Gmail]

That was my first approach, but I have to be sure that the last package was installed... It guess it will work this way too, since I will not login as a std user until the installations are done.

Best regards

Kostas

[Nick McSpadden]

Why does it need to run _last_? Regardless of the other questions about how necessary you think this is, Munki already has the ability to establish "A before B" relationships, using update_for or requires keys.

If you need to make sure your dockutil script is installed after your software (and, as Greg said, you really don't, since this happens at login anyway), then mark those software packages are requirements for your dockutil script.

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[Kostas Backas-Gmail]

Thank you,

Mark all installations that will be placed on the new dock as required? OK, but since there are many items, that's the reason I wanted to know which is the last software installed in a manifest.

Since I don't have yet anything that requires restart, I will do a test with first login.

Now I need to find a way to exclude the local admin user from getting the outset script.

Best regards

Kostas

[Erik Gomez]

There are various ways to accomplish this (excluding the admin account), all which should already be in the repertoire of system administrator with years of experience. 

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[Kostas Backas-Gmail]

years of experience

That's the key here. Lack of it.

[Lee Ramsay]

Could you not mark the dockutil modification script(s) as logout required? This would force a logout, then the dockutil scripts would be put somewhere outset would run them, then guaranteed, both the software and the dockutil script will be present, before the user logs in?

I'm not sure if I've misread the situation..

Lee

[Kostas Backas-Gmail]

Thank you,

Good idea, I will, although in my situation, the user home will be created after the initial munki run.

Best regards

Kostas

[Mr. Alan Siu]

If the user home isn't created until after Munki is run, then I'm not sure the order will matter. My understanding is that Outset essentially modifies a Launch Agent. If you want the Launch Agent to use dockutil, at that point, both dockutil and the applications will all already be installed.

Alan Siu

Client Systems Analyst

St. Ignatius College Preparatory

[Erik Gomez]

Outset utilizes a Launch Agent upon user login and will run any scripts (once or every time depending on admin configuration). 

If you have a dockutil script that is ran via Outset, it will run.