[MacTUG] An Update on Mountain Lion Server for Mac Labs

[Mike Patterson]

Don, Bluetooth stays off quite acceptably on my workstation here (Core2Duo, 10.8.2). I use a USB keyboard and mouse.

I wish I could say the same about wireless though. Every now and again - particularly if I've just rebooted it - it will spontaneously enable the wireless radio and then sometimes is quite irritating about not allowing me to re-disable it.

I don't know if this means anything for your labs, except that "works for me, only different". :) I *believe* the wireless self-on-age is since I upgraded to 10.8, I don't recall having had this issue with 10.6 or 10.7 on this same machine.

Mike

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On 2013-02-28, at 12:40 PM, Donald Duff-McCracken <dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> So I am pretty well ready to roll, I really am only having a few nagging issues. Stuff that I was able to handle using MCX that has not yet translate into Profile Manager.
> 
> One issue is that I cannot have bluetooth turned off by default. I have turned airport and bluetooth off in my 'client zero' machines  and interestingly airport stays off in my cloned machines but bluetooth turns itself on. I bet that it is due to the Mac being quite reliant on bluetooth input devices now and that something is kicking it on 'just to be safe'. Clearly there is no easy solution as someone wrote a unix command to do it --   http://www.frederikseiffert.de/blueutil/ -- blueutil seems to work, so I may install it and use it to keep bluetooth off. I want bluetooth and airport off for a variety of reasons, to not choke the airwaves and from a security perspective. But it is hard to get these services off! Any suggestions for how to do this on 10.8 for machines being deployed would be appreciated. At least Airport is turned off.
> 
> The second issue is that I want the 'menu extras' for bluetooth/timemachine/airport etc not in the menu bar. These were controlled my MCX before and I cannot get a handle on them now. I have tried custom commands in profile manager (sort of replacing the MCX stuff) and that does not work. I have also tried the common suggestion of modifying the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist but that does not seem to work. It seems that removing a menu item (by command-dragging it or clicking the button in the appropriate system preferences) changes the array in the above plist but it does not go the other way — changing the plist contents does not seem to change the stuff in the menu. I even tried a "killall -KILL SystemUIServer" and that did not work. The problem with having them in the menu is that even if they start turned off they can turn on.
> 
> These are fairly trivial issues but they piss me off ;-)
> 
> Any suggestions, including good forums to post these issues too?
> 
> 
> Otherwise, things are going pretty good and I have figured out all the rest of the issues (knock on wood) that I need for deploying Mountain Lion, to at least of of the labs, this summer.
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