The only way I was able to fix this (and it occurs for me after the
install if I tried to register) was this in %post:
echo "192.168.10.100 myhostname" >> /etc/hosts
of course make the necessary substitutions, and perform this before you do
the rhnreg_ks
James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394
kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/29/2006 12:00:38 PM:
> I set it in my post like this:
>
> export HOSTNAME=`grep HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network | awk -F= '{print
> $2}'`
> hostname $HOSTNAME
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James P
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:48 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: Redhat RHN (re)-joining in Kickstart
>
> Kinda depends how you're setting your hostname and how your doing your
> registration during the kickstart, but it should be fairly easy no
> matter how you approach it. In my own builds, I set the hostname in the
> %pre section and then register in the %post like this:
>
> rhnreg_ks --profilename $HOSTNAME
>
> p.s. Not sure if this is what you meant, but you don't really have to
> re-register the systems just to change their profile names. You can edit
> that part of the RHN website manually.
>
> Philip Rowlands wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Phil Bettinson wrote:
> >
> >> I'm currently arguing with a small part of a kickstart script that
> >> joins, and updates the computers to the kickstart network. It works,
> >> appart from the fact that it registers them as "localhost.localhost",
>
> >> as opposed to their machine names.
> >>
> >> The machines have the correct names when they reboot (that is, the
> >> pick up the correct hostnames, and have the right ip addresses etc.),
>
> >> but it means that I have to re-register them with RHN in order to
> >> give them a sane name.
> >
> >
> > I had this as a %post script:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh -
> > . /etc/sysconfig/network
> > hostname -v -- "$HOSTNAME"
> >
> >
> > which might do the trick.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Phil
> >
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