On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 09:06 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hi, > > I am installing Fedora 20 to my servers using PXE boot + Kickstart > mechanisms, so that it is fully automatic. It works well. > > > However, there is one basic problem I cannot solve - How do I follow the > installation progress? > > Here is the issue: sometimes the installation is fast, sometimes it is > slow, and sometimes it dies in the middle (e.g., the repository, which > is remote, becomes unavailable). > > Currently I have a simple time-out solution. If the installation does > not finish within 45 minutes, I assume that it failed. My scripts just > wait for a '/tmp/post-finished' file to be created, and I create it from > the '%post' section of the KS file. > > Instead, what I would like to do, is to follow the package installation > log. Like the one that I see in VGA: > > Installing package A > Installing package B > .... > > > But the problem is that this log is not available anywhere but the VGA > display. I googled around, people mention some install.log file, but it > does not exist in my case. > > I also saw that there is an option to make anaconda send log message to > a remote syslog, but this would not be a good solution for me. > > I'd really prefer anaconda to log to a file (and flush the stream), and > let me follow the log. > > Is this possible, any suggestions? /tmp/packaging.log is the file you want to track. You'd need to ignore the debugging information at the top, but the information about "so far installed" packages appears there during the installation process. -- Vratislav Podzimek Anaconda Rider | RHCE | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
