Setting the to false does not persist., Open a new instance of Firefox and it is reset back to true. But with the newer versions the option Never check for updates no longer exists in the Options page. Thank you for the hidden info regarding the config. This is a good test because the plist only contains 1 entry. Version 68 not able to turn off updates completely.

No matter how many times you turn it off, when you install a new version of Java, it’s re-checked. I want to turn off Java 7’s auto update feature. Can puppet manage plist for Mac OS X? So I decided to try something very simple. If one of the things Puppet can manage are file resources, and plist are just formatted xml files. What kind of creative things can puppet do to manage a Mac OS X desktop? I’m trying to consider how puppet could fit into my current workflows. Two things I can manage in several different ways, but I’d like to see if Puppet’s way is better/different. This time I”m up and running and my two big goals, both of which I accomplished, were too manage a local admin account, and install and manage printers for Mac OS X. It usually ends with some crisis being more important and by the time I come back to puppet … I’m lost. I’ve been looking at puppet for over two years and have tried twice in the past to stand up a virtual machine and make it do something!!!.

My Puppet Master is Ubuntu 12.04, my Puppet Agent is Mac OS X 10.9. I’ve been toying with a virtual setup of puppet open source over the last week.

Turn off java auto updates