RE: Custom Kickstarts

[Brown, Scott D CTR, E2]

Yup, there is no #raw above %post section.  On my 0.8 version of cobbler
it puts some sort of [cheetah] commands in front of each section and
ultimately does not parse the lockdowns.  In 1.0.2 cobbler, the
kickstart never parses.  Due to operational commitments, I had to go
back to the working version of cobbler for me and that was 0.8 .  All I
do is replace the 'blank' kickstart with the modded one until I can
figure this out... Thanks ...

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Aaron
Lippold
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 16:43
To: cobbler mailing list
Subject: Re: Custom Kickstarts

Hi,

Did you remove #raw from the top of the %post section so that cobbler
doesn't try to parse the post section.

I thought I put a comment in there about that.

A

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Brown, Scott CTR -Navair - Siap
 wrote:
> Sorry I should of mentioned that I already had a loop in place on the 
> /mn/<iso> directory.
>
> Interesting enough though, after messing around with 1.0.2 over the 
> weekend, it seems that my kickstart file is not being accepted

anymore.
> By this I mean that everything in my script past the %post part is not
> 'added' to the system.  Almost like it is being ignored for some

reason.
> For security reasons I can not post my script but I can post a couple 
> of snippets from it for reference.  Thanks..
>
> # GEN000020 (G001)
> # GEN000040 (G002)
> # GEN000060 (G003)
> # L224 - removed
> echo "Locking down GEN000020, GEN000040, GEN000060"
> echo "Require the root pw when booting into single user mode" >> 
> /etc/inittab echo "~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin" >> /etc/inittab echo 
> "GEN000020, GEN000040,GEN000060 Complete"
>
> # GEN000700
> # Change the password expiration time from undefined to 60 days echo 
> "Locking down GEN000700"
> perl -npe 's/PASS_MAX_DAYS\s+99999/PASS_MAX_DAYS 60/' -i 
> /etc/login.defs chage -M 60 root echo "GEN000700 Complete"
>
> # GEN000540
> # Ensure that the user cannot change their password more than once a 
> day.
> echo "Locking down GEN000540"
> perl -npe 's/PASS_MIN_DAYS\s+0/PASS_MIN_DAYS 1/g' -i /etc/login.defs 
> echo "GEN000540 Complete"
>
> --
>
> Thanks...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Michael 
> DeHaan
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 17:01
> To: cobbler mailing list
> Subject: Re: Custom Kickstarts
>
> Brown, Scott CTR -Navair - Siap wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately it seems something else is going
> > on in the background.  While I was waiting I decided to test out a 
> > theory by doing the following:
> >
> > Cobbler import --path=/mnt/<.iso> --name=Test1 
> > --kickstart=/root/kickstart/ks.cfg
>
> Import does not take ISOs directly, you have to mount them on a 
> loopback.  That seems to be the problem.
> > The import seemed to work just fine except when I selected the Test1 
> > in the menu, its saying that it needs some files from the 
> > <server>/cobbler/ks_mirror/Test1/images/stage2.img.  But there are no
> > files at all in the ks_mirror directory.  Only a Config directory.
> > What's really weird is that while watching the import, there was a 
> > lot
> > of 'processing' going on putting files in that directory...
> >
> > Also as per your below URL, the only thing in my svc directy are 3 
> > python files.  No sub-directories.... Thanks..
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail]
> > [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Michael 
> > DeHaan
> > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 15:20
> > To: cobbler mailing list
> > Subject: Re: Custom Kickstarts
> >
> > Brown, Scott CTR -Navair - Siap wrote:
> > > Recently I've updated from 0.8.2 to 1.0.2 and when I did my cobbler 
> > > sync after 'tweaking' the settings to fit my network, the

'kickstart'
> > > directory with my custom kickstarts is gone.  How do I associate 
> > > custom kickstarts to my profiles I added?  Thanks..
> > >
> > > Scott
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> > Cobbler does not save kickstarts it renders on the filesystem.   It
> > renders them dynamically.
> >
> > See http://server/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/name
> > OR
> > http://server/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/name
> >
> > This is true for any values to --kickstart that are stored on the 
> > filesystem.
> >
> > If you have a kickstart that is not being managed by a cobbler 
> > template, you can, however, make it available over http and do the
>
> following:
> > cobbler profile add --name=foo --kickstart=http://...
> >
> > And it will not treat it as a template and will use it verbatim
> >
> > Note: A user should never put any content of their own into 
> > /var/www/cobbler as cobbler owns that directory and will remove files
> > added there during sync.
> >
> > Does that answer the question?
> >
> > --Michael
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