On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Chris Mckenzie wrote: >Does anyone have any suggestions on handling kickstart installation >failure logging? If a kickstart succeeds in installing, I know because >my post script runs. If it fails, either within the middle of the ks >process or fails to run my post script, the system will reboot without >pausing to let me know what the problem was. It will? If anaconda terminates abnormally the system usually will print something to the screen then prompt to reboot, I thought. >Any ideas? I'd like to append my post script logging to whatever >existing kickstart logging may exist. If debugging then you could follow along on VT3 to watch the %post script(s) stdout and stderr. If you mean logging of anticipated failures, then IIRC there's a syslog output file left in /root or /tmp, which I'd expect would be accessed via the usual API (syslog(3) or logger(1)). Cheers, Phil