Safari Private Web Browsing

Hello, I'm running OSX Server 10.4.9 (Dual G5 2.3Ghz), we have Open Directory server. All clients are also running 10.4.9.
Everyday I have to keep running a terminal command to delete all safari cache and it's getting boring lol.
How can I force WGM prefs to set Safari private web browsing so these cache files do not even get created in the first place???
Any help with be excellent.
Thanks
Xserve G5 Dual 2.3Ghz 2Gb RAM & Xserve RAID   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   Open Directory Server

I haven't done what you're proposing, but you could create a cron job to delete the caches using the command you already have. That would probably be the least amount of trouble.

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