Michael, Was already running 0.6.4-2 so I replaced the addresses in the distros file with @@server@@ and made the necessary changes in the settings file and its working beautifully again. Thanks for the quick response. -- Richard Abbott <rabbott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> TICOM Geomatics, Inc. 9130 Jollyville Rd, Ste 300 Austin, TX 78759 Office : (512)610-8340 Fax : (512)345-9992 Cell : (512)422-2352 Michael DeHaan wrote: > Richard Abbott wrote: >> I am having an issue with cobbler holding onto an old ip address. >> >> I have gotten cobbler installed and several systems successfully >> reimaging themselves on a weekly basis from the cobbler server. Last >> week it was necessary to change the ip address of the cobbler server >> from 192.168.1.163 to 192.168.0.163. I have gone through and updated the >> kickstart file to reflect the change and run a cobbler sync. >> >> Then when I tried to reinstall one of the clients with koan I got the >> following output >> >> [root@camaro ~]# koan --server=192.168.0.163 --replace-self >> - Auto detected: camaro >> - using kickstart from cobbler: >> http://192.168.1.163/cblr/kickstarts_sys/camaro/ks.cfg >> Unable to download kickstart, perhaps cobbler sync was not run recently, >> Apache is not running, or the server address in the cobbler settings >> file is wrong. >> >> I went through all of the files in the /var/www/cobbler >> directories(distro, kickstarts, systems, etc.) and found 192.168.1.163 >> sprinkled in many different files. I went through and hand modified each >> file to have the correct 0.163 address. When I ran cobbler sync again >> all of the files reverted back to the 192.168.1.163 address. >> >> I am not sure what I need to do to make the cobbler server files have >> the correct addresses in them. >> >> > > I would first upgrade to 0.6.4 if you haven't already. There's some > work done there to make cobbler much easier to migrate between server > addresses. > > If you are running an older version, carefully edit the values in > /var/lib/cobbler/distros and you'll be able to migrate it. > Once you upgrade to 0.6.4, you can replace the addresses in that file > with "@@server@@" and then all you'll ever have to edit is the one > field in /var/lib/cobbler/settings. > > (You shouldn't edit files in /var/www/cobbler because they are output > from cobbler sync. They are not input files) > > > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
