On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Daniel Burkland wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have sort of an odd request for you today in regards to Kickstart
> configuration. I have recently created a kickstart configuration file to
> better standardize the configuration aspect of my server installations. I am
> having one issue and that is distributing a script (yum-check) via the
> kickstart file (in %post section). Parts of the script get written to the
> correct file (/usr/bin/yum-check & /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron) however
> variables in the individual scripts I believe are getting parsed by
> Kickstart. The parsing of these variables is preventing them from being
> written to the respective file. I am wondering if any of you have ever
> distributed a shell script via kickstart before and if so how did you do it?
> I would also like to mention that I have attempted to wget the script to the
> current directory (after cding into /usr/bin/ for example) with no luck. I
> have attached my kickstart configuration file so you can get a better picture
> of what I'm trying to do.
>
Instead of use wget instead. It's "safer". Second, implement somthing
like puppet to ensure consistency after installation.
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