This might be a stupid suggestion, but would using 'nohup' be of any value? > > > [some preamble cut] > > > > 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/ > > -- > Brian Long | | | > IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. > Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. > Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- Klaus Steden | Senior Systems Administrator | Technicolor Creative Services | TODO: Toronto | 1) Learn to use my new Unix account. klaus.steden@xxxxxxxxxxx | 2) Learn how to change this list. Phone: (416) 585-9995 | Fax: (416) 364-1585 |