Joe_Wulf wrote:
Hello everyone,
When kickstarting, in text mode, eventually there is a pair of boxes
which are displayed; they are labeled "Dynamic IP" and "Hostname".
This occurs after the kernel images have been downloaded and booted.
I've two questions at this point:
- Is "Dynamic IP"'s message about "Sending request for IP information
for eth0" soliciting DHCP or DNS for its answer?
DHCP.
- Is "Hostname"''s message about "Determining host name and domain
..." soliciting its information from DHCP or DNS?
DNS.
..snip...
Another question is about the various outputs on the other VC's. Is
there any method to control their output going to a text log file for
subsequent review? Should would be a nice troubleshooting aid.
Remote syslog support is available in FC6 and later, and RHEL5 and later.
syslog=ip:port on the kernel options line.
cobblerd (part of Cobbler) has a daemon to capture this information and
log it, which the data from each kickstarting IP going to a seperate file.
Once a system has reached %post, I've been successful in echo'ing text
progress messages to /dev/console. This shows me progress in all of
the post processing I do in a upfront visual method. Only problem is
that the messages would display and the cursor will drop a line, but
not begin at the left margin. I've tried various options with
escaping tab and newline and carriage return types of characters to
have the text display at the beginning of the next line. Any
suggestions on how to go about doing this in %post?
An example is like this:
text message1
text message 2
test message 3
If this is for debugging, just sticking a long "sleep 99999" in your
post section allows you do to anything you want with the shell, and is
IMHO less ugly than relying on printing stuff to the console.
Thank you.
R,
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