Thanks for the help guys.
It seems the final solution looks a little something like this....
HOSTNAME=`grep $IP /kickstart/hosts | awk '{print $3}'`
IP=`ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
HOST=`grep $IP /kickstart/hosts | awk '{print $2}'`
echo "$IP $HOST $HOSTNAME" >> /etc/hosts
hostname -v -- "$HOSTNAME"
/kickstart is a directory previously mounted from the NFS server, where
I have a "host" file, that is a file that is laid out like a hostfile
(ish), with no comments in. eg
(sample line)
192.168.0.1 mymachine mymachine.mynetwork.co.uk 10.0.0.1
The last IP address allows me to place the machine on two different
networks.
Here's the kickstart Stuff
echo "Registring with RHN"
/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks --activationkey=<insertl long key here>
echo " "
echo "Running up2date"
/usr/sbin/up2date up2date
/usr/sbin/up2date -u
The reason for using an activation key means that they go back into the
right group at the end of the kickstart (that bit was the important
bit). the reason for not wanting to use --profile is that that implies
that there is a profile there already (in our case there might not be)
You may notice that I first up2date up2date, before updating the system,
that's because in the version of RHAS3 (rh3 no updates) I'm
kickstarting, it has problems with dependencies on the x64_86 architecture.
I also don't up2date the kernel here because of various (other) system
dependencies that break on a kernel upgrade without
modification/recompile/reinstall. This ensure that the system comes up
working, and as secure as possible to ensure that we can get working
straight away.
Admitedly I don't need all this detail here, but it's here for those
that happen to google this problem in the future.
Thanks for the help solving this problem
Phil Bettinson
James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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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