By default Apple Software Update Server’s (READ: ASUS) sync daily with Apple at 3am.
But this can be changed, & the below script can be ran to change the interval. You can change either the time of day the sync runs or change it to once a week.
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After migrating to a new Mac I was getting the errors above when launching iTunes.
Below is why I was seeing these errors, and how I resolved.
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We set our Macs to require a password when woken from sleep or the screensaver.
Around the beginning of November several of our 10.8.x Mac users started to advise that they were seeing the dreaded spinning beachball/pinwheel when trying to wake their Macs.
It appears we were not alone in this issue.
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Even though we’re using a HTTP/S distribution point, that should allow for resumable downloads we sometimes see the above error.
Below are some more details around this, and a break-fix.
Continue readingWithin our Casper environment all our distribution points are HTTPS. On occasions we’ll get the emails from our JAMF Software Server containing the above error.
Below are some more details.
Way back in 2011 I wrote the post: Managing Apple Software Update Server Across Multiple Servers 10.5/10.6/10.7. This itself was based off of an Apple KB article that seems to have disappeared, but the method outlined in the post above is alive & well, just needs some tweaking for 10.8+.
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Most of the Macs I support are mobile & it seems that around the with the release of the “Unibody MacBook Pro” Apple stopped shipping Macs with a battery that would keep the Macs time even when the Macs main battery had died.
This means that if a Macs battery dies during travelling to another office, they’d not be able to login once there as the time would be more than 5 minutes out. Also, we heavily use SSL to secure things like our Wireless & many websites (JSS distribution points included).
So the solution was for me to setup my own NTP, that would both sync with my domains NTP & be externally accessible for those mobile users on the road.
I’ve posted How To: Set a Macs Time Server, How To: Sync Time With NTP via Script & How To: Check Your Active Directory Domains Time. They all came about when 1st looking at this issue, this last post in the series with use all those posts.
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So far I have posted 2 blog posts on How To: Set a Macs Time Server & How To: Sync Time With NTP via Script. Well, why am I posting this?
A recent post showed how to forcibly update a Macs time against a given NTP server, i’ve since been asked how to set the Macs NTP server.
This post will try & show you how.
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I’ve been trying to restore my JSS 8.73 to a test server in preparation to test upgrading to 9.2x, but during the restore i was getting the error “ERROR 2006 (HY000) at line 1692: MySQL server has gone away” as shown below.
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