Looking in gui.cfg it’s easy to work out the actual preference: update_success_tray_report_enabled=yes In the GUI, the preference can be found in the Update section, Advanced Options: On the other hand, folks might like to know SCEP is doing its thing and keeping up to date. Definitions are often updated many times a day, so I can see why this might annoy people. By default, SCEP runs a scheduled task to check for new definitions every hour (I covered this in part 1). In this case, following example, we’re going to disable the notification SCEP pops up when it updates definitions. Note that you can’t use ~ when you specify the path – it has to be the FULL path to the file, e.g. Hosted with ❤ by used sed to manipulate the contents of this file directly but as the file is using SCEP’s known structure, I thought I’d try scep_set, remembering that it has a –cfg option: -cfg=FILE configuration file Looking at the contents of this file, it appears to be structured in the same way as SCEP’s system wide preference file. SCEP stores these settings here (so totally ignoring Apple’s standards then!): ~/.scep/gui.cfg However, this looks interesting, and I started digging. I wasn’t aware that there were user-specific GUI preferences you could also manage (because there isn’t anything there I wanted to manage in my environment – I was lazy and only learned what I needed to get the job done). This definitely builds on what I’ve done so far, and after some tinkering, I think I’ve in turn built on that… Read on! Configuring User-specific GUI Preferences What’s really interesting is when someone contributes something, others often come forward and build on their work, ever-advancing it towards a state of pure got in touch with me on the Slack after I published part 1 and part 2 of my thoughts on managing SCEP. The Mac Admins community is interesting (amongst other things!).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |