Beth C <beth.cornell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 12:37 am, Don Bruder <dak...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Warchild <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > This is strange, but doesn't Software Update already download the
> > > updates in the background, and then wait for you to approve
installing
> > > them? You set the frequency in the Sysem Preferences, and the time
is
> > > usually that frequency at the time of day that you last ran it. So
you
> > > can change the day and time by manually running it once at that day
and
> > > time.
> >
> > Talk about an utterly crap interface... To get SU to run its
auto-check
> > at a time of my choosing, I have to fire it up at that time? So if I
> > want it to run at 4 AM, I've gotta roll out of my bed then to set it
up?
> >
> > HOW BOGUS IS THAT?!?!?
>
> No so. Goto preferences then to Update Preferences. I did it. Mine
> will update every month at 7pm. That is after it does it's initial
> startup check. Then go to Update Prefs and schedule. I am on OS X
> 10.4. Beth
Beth, The point is that the Software Update preferences don't let you
specify a time of day at which the update is to be done, only a
frequency.
The only way you can get it to occur regularly at a particular time (7
PM in your case) would be if you had initiated a software update check
at that time and then set it to go regularly every day, week or month.
Don wants to run it at 4 AM and the only way to do that via the standard
user interface would be if he was awake at that time and initiated a
software update check.
If you aren't a night owl, then the easiest way to do this would be to
use Automator, AppleScript or similar to initiate a software update
check at the appropriate time, assuming the appropriate parts of the
schedule and the update check are sufficiently scriptable.
--
David Empson
dempson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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