<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have set this up on Apollo and Arctic. Although we rarely get the traffic from non-free sites, just guarantees that the updates will always come down at a sensible rate.<div><br></div><div>Fwiw I also set up the software update server and know it's not doing anything crazy... well, anything crazy for OS X server, which is to say, lots of things crazy.</div><div><br></div><div>Frenchie<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Alex Dawson <<a href="mailto:alex.dawson@uwa.edu.au">alex.dawson@uwa.edu.au</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">13 June 2008 11:33:30 AM</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:tech-contacts@uwa.edu.au">tech-contacts@uwa.edu.au</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[Tech-contacts] Apple Software Update Server</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I was asked by someone about an on-campus Apple Software Update Server. While in most cases, the traffic to the official Apple ones will be free, due to Akamai/iinet/WAIX, in some cases it may not, and firewall rules may block direct access to the Internet in some areas. </div><div><br></div><div>In any case, we have got one at <a href="http://asu.arts.uwa.edu.au:8088">http://asu.arts.uwa.edu.au:8088</a> .. holding updates for 10.4 and 10.5, and anyone on campus is welcome to use it, on the proviso that you let us know. To set it up, we have the following script:</div><div><br></div><div>--- 8< ---</div><div><br></div><div><div>#!/bin/sh</div><div><br></div><div>SUSERVER="<a href="http://asu.arts.uwa.edu.au:8088/">http://asu.arts.uwa.edu.au:8088/</a>" # trailing backslash is REQUIRED!</div><div>DWRITE="/usr/bin/defaults write"</div><div><br></div><div># Point at local Software Update server</div><div>$DWRITE "/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate" CatalogURL "${SUSERVER}"</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>--- 8< ---</div><div><br></div></div><div>Regards,<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Alex Dawson<br>FAHSS Faculty Computing, University of Western Australia (CRICOS 00126G)<br>08 6488 7093 - <a href="mailto:alex.dawson@uwa.edu.au">alex.dawson@uwa.edu.au</a> - <a href="http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson">http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson</a></div></div></span> </div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>