I could have sworn Daniel Segall said this Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:45:31PM -0500 ... > > I just run a simple script in %post to set IP's, and other machine > specific details. This way, I can just boot a system and walk away. When > I come back later, tomorrow, or whenever, it's waiting for my (or anyone > else's) input with a few questions. > Yeah, I approach the problem from the other direction - I tell the machine what I expect of it up front, and it does the rest from there. Cfengine makes a lot of the finer-grained configuration substantially easier. Klaus