Introduction to Outset

Outset automatically processes packages, profiles, and scripts during the boot sequence, user logins, or on demand.

Requirements

• python 3 (the last version that supported python 2 was outset version 2.0.6)
• It's only been tested on 10.9.x and above

Overview

Outset is triggered by launchd so there is no interactive mode in production. For testing purposes, one may manually invoke the command(s), and progress will write to stdout:

sudo /usr/local/outset/outset --boot
/usr/local/outset/outset --login

Logging

Outset logs to standard out and to two different log files, depending on the user context in which the item is being processed (root or user):

/var/log/outset.log
~/Library/Logs/outset.log

Login-Once

login-privileged-once and login-once items are added to preference files, depending on the user context in which the item is being processed (root or user). This ensures that scripts won't be run again on subsequent logins:

/usr/local/outset/share/com.github.outset.once.$UID.plist (where $UID is the UID of the console user)
~/Library/Preferences/com.github.outset.once.plist