On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:22 -0600, Dan Trainor wrote: > Hello, all - > > I have a few applications taht are run during %post, which I've been > having trouble with - mainly with data input corruption. > > I was trying to see if it was possible to echo all output frmo a %post > section to vt3, or even better, a file. > > Anyone know how I can do this? > Something cool I picked up from the admin of the math department here at duke: %post --nochroot ln -s /mnt/sysimage/etc/termcap /etc/termcap # download the post.sh into the chroot chroot /mnt/sysimage /usr/bin/wget -O /tmp/post.sh \ http://someplace/post.sh >>/mnt/sysimage/root/foo.output 2>&1 chmod +x /mnt/sysimage/tmp/post.sh # run it in an xterm DISPLAY=:1.0 xterm -geometry 80x25+150+160 -e chroot /mnt/sysimage \ /tmp/post.sh >>/mnt/sysimage/root/foo.output 2>&1 /bin/rm -f /mnt/sysimage/tmp/post.sh so in a graphical install it will pop up the xterm to run your %post :) -sv