Is it possible to do an unattended install?

Hello Nathan,

I'm not familiar with Chef, but - did you come across mkinstpkg?

Christian

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the response. Essentially there is nothing special about what I'm doing with Chef, I just need to be able to run the install script without having to interactively configure it.

I hadn't come across mkinstpkg before thanks. I tried it out, and it seemed to be straight forward, but I can't configure it to automatically update from the internet, it just skips that question and asks where the files are available from locally. Any ideas?

Nathan

Hello Nathan,

update from the internet
you mean from Sophos? If so, you have to call mkinstpkg with the --sophos flag - please see chapter 11 Appendix in the Startup Guide (there's also a recent thread on mkinstpkg in the Endpoint forum).

Christian

Hello Nathan,

update from the internet
you mean from Sophos? If so, you have to call mkinstpkg with the --sophos flag - please see chapter 11 Appendix in the Startup Guide (there's also a recent thread on mkinstpkg in the Endpoint forum).

Christian

That looks promising thanks mate. When I get a chance I'll give it a try.

Cheers,

Nathan

Hi Nathan,

You can also script the main installer - all its options can be specified from the command-line, and the --automatic option forces the installer to not ask any questions.

Thanks,

Douglas.

Hi Douglas,

I'm trying to do --automatic command but it throws an error it says.

You must specify an installation directory on the command line for automatic installations.

Installation aborted.

Automatic installation and no install directory specified.

The command looks like this:

./install.sh --SavWebUsername=username --SavWebPassword=password --acceptlicence --automatic

The image above are the list of the commands that is available.

Thanks,

Mark Jagyo

Hi Mark,

Look at the "Usage:" line, which shows how to specify the installation directory.

Also SavWebUsername and SavWebPassword don't do anything, since we've removed the WebUI.

Hi Douglas,

Thats just embarrassing to miss that one.

Thank you so much :)