kickstart can log to a remote syslog daemon. Would that be OK? You could
configure /etc/syslog.conf in %post so that the system logs after first
boot as well.
To log extra stuff, just use the "logger" command. I'm not sure if
"logger" is available during installation, though, but you could copy it
in if needed.
Jason
On 05/04/2011 04:41 PM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
Hi Hugh,
Thanks for your input. I will toy with your idea in my environment.
Thanks again!
- David
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Hugh Brown<hbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 05/04/2011 01:11 PM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
Hi Hugh,
Thanks for your feedback. Our reporting is hoping to be a percentage and
the load time would probably be around 10 mins or so. I like your idea
about monitoring both anaconda.log and install.log.
Would putting something like "I'm done" in the last line of %post would
ensure that's the last thing that is being executed by anaconda? or that's
just close enough to being the last thing?
Thanks for your valuable opinions.
- David
The scripts that are run from %post are effectively the last thing that
happens (that we have any control over). So you could put another python
script or shell script in %post that would contact your monitoring server to
indicate completion.
For example, in looking at a machine that just loaded, the last line in
anaconda.log is time stamped 12:07:18. The log files that I create from
scripts within %post are timestamped from 12:07 to 12:14.
The next available time to indicate completion would be to drop a
"firstboot" style script into the newly installed machine and have it report
after the reboot. After it reports, it could remove/disable itself.
Hugh
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