MacOS monitoring the open source way

Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way by antoncohen on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:00AM (#16938373)

Facebook has a Chef cookbook called cpe_nightly_reboot for their Macs. I can't think of why that would be required, but they must have a reason.

https://github.com/facebook/IT-CPE/tree/master/chef/cookbook...

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Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way by MagerValp on Friday April 27, 2018 @06:47AM (#16939748)

I don't work at Facebook, but I'm fairly certain this is for things like build servers, not client machines.

They use Munki for software updates, which, just like you describe, gives the user a grace period where they can reboot at their leisure. Ignore it for long enough and it'll crank up the nagging, and eventually force a reboot.

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Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way by icebraining on Friday April 27, 2018 @09:38AM (#16940661)

this is for things like build servers, not client machines.

It talks about killing GUI processes. Is it common to run a display server on macOS servers?

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Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way by MagerValp on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:24AM (#16941456)

Yes. Services that can run without a display are better run on a Linux server anyway.

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Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way by icebraining on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:30AM (#16941512)

I assumed it was for compilation of iOS apps, do those need a display?

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Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way by saagarjha on Saturday April 28, 2018 @02:08AM (#16946291)

No, you can compile iOS apps from the command line.

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Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way by Miredly on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:25AM (#16941465)

I don't think it's possible not to.

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