FortiClient Online installer in Mac

[ai10]

Hi,

Can someone tell me where (in the MacBook OS Sierra file system) the FortiClient 5.7 online installer puts the PKG file after it finishes the download?

In one MacBook I am getting "No installer found in FDS" server error but in another MacBook, the online installer (dmg file) seem to download fine. 

But I cannot locate the downloaded file in the file system. What I am trying to do is transfer the downloaded file onto the other MacBook where its not working in the hope of trying to bypass this broken installer issue.

Thanks a lot. 

[emnoc]

have you man page unix find, maybe you could use that in determine what pkg was download if any?

Ken

[ai10]

emnoc wrote:

have you man page unix find, maybe you could use that in determine what pkg was download if any?

Ken

Yes thats the very first thing I did. 

find / -name "Fort*.pkg"

find / -name "*.pkg"

and all variants.

Also tried searching in /Volumes where the onlineInstaller dmg was mounted. 

I also tried modifying the command described here to echo the path to the pkg file but with no luck.

[ai10]

I dont have a support contract with FortiClient to actually go download the offline installer and currently in the process of going through the VPN vendor that does - but looking at doing it this way to save time as that process might take ages.

[emnoc · Accepted solution]

sudo   find  / -name "F*lient*"

check  files on working macosx and then use that atime in your unix find

sudo find / -name "Forti*" -atime +2d

e.g  binaries are here

/Library/Application\ Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/

PKG is ????

[ai10]

emnoc wrote:

sudo   find  / -name "F*lient*"

check  files on working macosx and then use that atime in your unix find

sudo find / -name "Forti*" -atime +2d

e.g  binaries are here

/Library/Application\ Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/

PKG is ????

Hi enmoc, Thanks for your helpful hint. 

Running 

ai$ sudo find  / -name "For*lient*"

gave few results one of which is:

/private/var/folders/1n/892btz4x6mbd84z6qx18p6mm0000gn/T/fctupdate/FortiClient.dmg 

This is the offline installer. Transferred it to the other Mac and it worked.

Many thanks for your helpful hint.  

Cheers.     

[emnoc]

np 

Mine does not show that name  but , FWIW the md5 checksum and the 5.6.1.723 dmg was from a direct download.

YMMV

/Users/kfelix/Downloads/FortiClient_5.6.1.723_macosx.dmg /Users/kfelix/Downloads/FortiClientOnlineInstaller.dmg

macosken01:/ kfelix$ md5 /Users/kfelix/Downloads/FortiClient_5.6.1.723_macosx.dmg MD5 (/Users/kfelix/Downloads/FortiClient_5.6.1.723_macosx.dmg) = ad148ada75cb8b3db126ae00db506178

macsken01:/ kfelix$ md5 /Users/kfelix/Downloads/FortiClientOnlineInstaller.dmg MD5 (/Users/kfelix/Downloads/FortiClientOnlineInstaller.dmg) = 7b8e287de3f65b2e81303908a857d90d