Customize Symantec LiveUpdate

Feb 12, '04 09:43:00AM

Contributed by: jlevitsk

If anyone uses Norton AntiVirus on OS X in a big company, then you know how annoying it is to configure it for a big company. Well I learned some stuff that I thought I'd share with the world. Tomorrow maybe I'll share my daily cron job that replaces the Symantec Scheduler for updates on my corporate build.

What switches are available when calling LiveUpdate from a cron job or applescript?

Example for use in a cron job or shell script (enter as one line, no added spaces):
 % /Applications/Norton Solutions/LiveUpdate.app/Contents/
   MacOS/LiveUpdate -liveupdateautoquit YES  -update LUal
Example so that the TV set update window won't appear (again, one line, no space after the "/" but add one after "YES"):
 % /Applications/Norton Solutions/LiveUpdate.app/Contents/
   MacOS/LiveUpdate -liveupdateautoquit YES  -liveupdatequiet YES 
   -update LUal
Hope this helps!

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