Forcing a preferences update

[klombard]

Does anybody know how I would go about forcing preferences to be pushed out immediately from an OD server? For instance, on the Windows side, AD will force a group policy update every hour +/- a half hour. Can OD be set to update its policy (user/group/computer preferences) in such a way? Or is there any way to manually force it? Perhaps something I could even script on the client side to update every x-minutes? A restart of the MCX client, or something?

Thanks very much for any help or ideas!

[klombard]

it appears that there was a way to do this in tiger by restarting mxcd.app (/System/Library/CoreServices/mxcd.app -f) – but that doesn’t appear to exist in Leopard (both client and servers are 10.5.3…i should have specified that). Anybody know if / what the equivalent is in Leopard?

[klombard]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]Most updates get picked up fairly quickly. Are you looking for peace of mind for some way to force this? Or have you actually seen changes not take for a while?[/p][/QUOTE]

both, really…i have a user group preference, for instance, to disable cd/dvd preferences in System Preferences. it won’t update unless i logoff/login. are you saying it should just get pushed down without having to log back in?

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