Thanks for the quick reply Klaus. I'm currently using the %post section
to install various applications and config settings, but my problem here
is that I don't know which files to edit to make the changes to the
gnome panel/launchers. I'm currently performing this step manually on
every install. I guess this is more a question for gnome rather than the
kickstart list.
Cheers
Matt
Klaus Steden wrote:
Hi Matt,
If I understand you correctly, what you would have to do would be to
edit the various desktop (i.e. GNOME or KDE) setup and control
scripts. There are a couple of possible approaches to this problem,
but the details will vary, so I won’t attempt to explain those since I
don’t know your environment. Regardless of the details, though, you
can simply add this to the ‘%post’ section of your Kickstart file.
This part gets executed immediately after all software installs have
been completed, and the system is otherwise ready to go. You could try
one or all of the following, depending on what works best for you:
1. Include diff’s or script instructions in %post to make the edits
needed to the files you want to change.
2. Write pre-baked versions of the file(s) you want tweaked and
store them on a local server, to be fetched via ‘wget’ or
similar during %post and saved to the appropriate locations on
the newly-installed OS.
3. Use a tool like ‘cfengine’ or ‘puppet’ to apply a more
systematic strategy to this kind of change management
I’ve applied all three strategies in various ways over the years, and
they all have their respective merits and flaws. #3 is particularly
useful if you want to easily handle ongoing change management tasks on
a regular basis, in addition to pre-configuring new systems.
As far as the changes necessary to add launchers and change file
browser behaviour, I wouldn’t be able to explain it quickly over
email, and the details will vary depending on the desktop system
(GNOME vs. KDE vs. vanilla X11) you’re using, so you’d have to consult
the respective documentation. Regardless, if you can make these
changes on a running system using a simple text editor and a command
line, you can easily apply the same process in the %post section of a
Kickstart configuration file.
hth,
Klaus
On 5/21/08 3:51 PM, "Matt Milliss" <matt_milliss@xxxxxxxxx>did etch on
stone tablets:
I'm using a kickstart script to install fedora 8 with gnome on all
desktops in my organisation. There are 2 things I would like to
automatically setup but don't quite know how. We have many
applications and I would like to add launchers to the top panel
for these applications, at the moment I do this manually but would
like to find out if there is a way to have this happen
automatically, possibly using skel or something similar. I'd also
like to change the default behaviour of the file browser
(nautilus?) without having to manually perform the steps for every
install. Is there a way that this can be done? Any help would be
greatly appreciated as it would save me lots of time.
Cheers
Matt
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