On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Lambert, Eric wrote: > I'm running a text based 7.3 kickstart install over NFS. In my %post > section (which is working now), I have several echo statements to track > progress, however, these don't show on screen. I'm also not sure what > text file on the system (like install.log) would contain this info. So, > can someone help me to make it so that my echos appear on the blue > screen during the post phase of the install? Is this possible? > I don't recall whether I've tried that in %post, but this should put the report somewhere you can read it as it happens: %post ( ... ) >/dev/tty 2>&1 If /dev/tty doesn't work, try /dev/console or any one of /dev/tty[1-9]. What I have done is %post ( ) >/mnt/sysimage/tmp/js-post 2>&1 followed by chroot /mnt/sysimage /usr/sbin/sendmail -t </mnt/sysimage/tmp/js-post having carefully put proper headings into the log file. You can also just dump it in root's home directory;-) And oh, tee is available, so you can see it and preserve a copy for later. -- Please, reply only to the list.
