would this work? yum groupinstall Insight-Manager >> /dev/tty3 2>&1 --Harry Brian Long wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 21:02 +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote: > >>On Tue, 31 May 2005, Brian Long wrote: >> >> >>>I'm trying to use yum in the %post section of kickstart. With well- >>>written RPMs, this works great. However, I've come across the lovely HP >>>Insight Manager RPMS (hpasm, hprsm, etc) which seem to run "service >>>hpasm start" during the RPM postinstall (yuck). This wouldn't be too >>>bad if the daemons actually disassociated from the running terminal. >> >>Don't let it have them: >> >>%post >>yum groupinstall Insight-Manager < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > I tried a variation of this so I could keep things logged (in order to > debug possible problems in the future): > > chvt 3 > yum groupinstall Insight-Manager </dev/null | tee -a /var/log/postinstall 2>&1 > chvt 1 > > hpasmd is still tied to tty1. If I kill the "tee" process, the %post > finishes running just fine. Any ideas how to keep a log of all of yum's > output and display it in parallel instead of using tee? I know about > yum.log, but I was hoping to grab possible errors to the postinstall > log. > > I guess I could run "chvt 3; (tail -f /var/log/postinstall &)" and then > run the "yum >> /var/log/postinstall 2>&1". > > Any other ideas would be appreciated. Thanks for your help! > > /Brian/ >
