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[fuzz]

I need to find someway of shutting down a Mac (OS 10.4) after a certain time period. The way it needs to work, is to have the script check the last modified date of the antivirus folder. If it is less than 23 days, it ignores it and everything carries on as normal. Between 23 days and 29 days, it should display a message saying 'You have x days left' or something. On the 30th day, it should show a message 'Please return the laptop' and shutdown after a short delay. It needs to only work on a limited account, obviously not the root or admin account. My knowledge of UNIX and MacOS is utter shite to say the least, so any help on the matter is greatly appreciated.
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[Suzuki]

Write a little script that checks the date of the folder, and does nothing if it's OK, or runs your shutdown/message script if it's too old.

Then add that script to cron, and set it to run every hour or something.
Could also add the script to a startup routine, so if it's too old it'll shutdown as soon as they start the laptop too.
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[fuzz]

I would write the script, but I can't

But yes, that's the idea. It needs to run once when they log in on the limited account.
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[Suzuki]

[fuzz]

[Suzuki]

You still struggling with this? Or have you sorted it yet?
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[fuzz]

I've written an Applescript that checks the date of a file, then warns or shuts down the system depending on the date. The trouble I'm having now is getting the script to run when the limited user logs in. I have set it to run at login, but it requires the user to click the app opening icon on the dock to run the script. If the user doesn't click it, it times out. If I can get it to run the script automatically, all will be well. I tried using osascript, but found out it doesn't like user interaction, i.e. display dialogs.
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[fuzz]

So far I have:

[Suzuki]

Ooooh

I've never use Applescript, so I will be completely useless to you now.

Perl I could have handled
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[fuzz]

I think Applescript was the wrong way to go. It does the job, but I cant run it from the limited account, even if I give it rwx permissions.
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[Suzuki]

You'd probably be best writing a shell script.

If you're struggling with what the commands are, drop me a PM or MSN me.
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[fuzz]

Sorted it I kept the Applescript but changed it around a little to get it to work with a login hook.
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[ali-b]

You could probably use CRON to schedule checks (for login, and/or a timeframe).

There are loads of apps out there that GUI-ize the CRON scheduler.

I guess you're pretty much sorted, only just seen this so thought I'd suggest the CRON

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