-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 William J. Dennison wrote: > Let me be more specific > > The 3 packages (rpms) exist in an "extra" "local" repository that Cobbler > offers to Kickstart. If the command "yum install tomcat" for example is > given, the rpm for tomcat is accessed and installed correctly. If tomcat is > placed in the Kickstart file, Tomcat is installed, but the rc.d directory is > not populated with a chkconfig'ed link and the start file inside /etc/init.d > is created but empty. > > Again if I run the yum command after the machine is completed it's load, all > works correctly. Kickstart is somehow not running the installation script > correctly or maybe there is a permission problem, I am at a loss. OK, thanks. That clears up what the problem is. Now to determine the cause. I suspect a problem with the %postinstall scripts of the packages since other package installations are correctly placing files in /etc/rc.d/init.d and setting up the proper symlinks in the /etc/rc?.d dirs. So lets start by looking at the scripts in those packages. Can you show us the output of: rpm -q --scripts jdk rpm -q --scripts tomcat rpm -q --scripts VMware-server - -- Kyle Powell | Red Hat | Senior Consultant, RHCE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJHFRO7pTtanQdBU4RAne9AJ9+NOEqqy2hfJCyrKJ6ejSw4FBs1QCdFCYA iQh+7HOVMii4RvqgA2JolRs= =y3Gu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list