On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:13:08PM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote: > >I do have a question about the implementation -- is there anything > >that would prevent cobbler from running on, say, a Solaris system? I > >ask because I already have a fairly extensive host-management system > >set up that runs on Solaris, and it would be reasonably > >straight-forward to integrate cobbler into it so that a user could > >say > > > ># need_shoes --system="text-name" --profile="profile-name" > > > >(ie need_shoes asks the cobbler for boots, or maybe you'd name it after > >a shoe vendor or something... to beat a naming convention to death :) > > > >...and have that script dig the IP address and MAC out of NIS, doctor > >dhcpd (if necessary -- I'm already doing much of that, which is why in > >my past comments I was resistant to cobbler doing it as well), and > >do the final "cobbler sync" automatically, making it a one-stop for > >my administrators. > > > Cobbler's rather RHEL/Fedora/Centos centric at this point, and I really > don't intend on changing that. Namely it knows > the job it needs to do and wants to do that job well. I think perhaps I was unclear in my question -- I don't want it to provision non-RH-family OSs (since we have spent fa-a-a-r too much time getting the Solaris Kickstart to work reasonably); I merely want it to run on a Solaris system because it will make access to things like ethers, hostnames and IP addresses much easier, and I already have a tftp server running on said Solaris system. I was asking if there is any dependancy in the code itself that would preclude it running on Solaris. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave@xxxxxxxxxx | http://www.xdroop.com
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