To Kyle, John and Shabazian---thank you each for your replies to my problem. Ended up tweaking the script so that it took an argument, which I conveniently passed to it, of the dir it was acting on. R, -Joe Wulf, CISSP, VCP, USN(RET) Senior IA Engineer ProSync Technology Group, LLC www.prosync.com -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kyle Powell Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:36 To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: chroot /path/to/start/in Multi-COMMAND -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe_Wulf wrote: > Hi everyone > > I've got a script that works its magic on the local directory, since > it could be anywhere (by design). > In a %post --nochroot'd environment, I'd created the following command: > > chroot /mnt/sysimage ( cd /workingdir; myscript ) I'm not sure why you're running chroot in a %post --nochroot script. Seems like it'd be easier to just run "myscript" in a regular %post script. But you could give this a shot: chroot /mnt/sysimage /mnt/sysimage/workingdir/myscript This will run /mnt/sysimage/workingdir/myscript with /mnt/sysimage as /. > I'd looked on the fedora anaconda/kickstart site for further guidance, > but it doesn't even list chroot as an available command, much less > document/explain it. Because the chroot utility is not provided by anaconda. It's part of the coreutils package. - -- 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 iD8DBQFJpBP97pTtanQdBU4RAgbeAJ0QSXHzpOr7MYJkOwdg0rEKVgYB8QCeJuyh 7qwrRIiNQfq7A1thlDTcRGI= =1HTB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
