Re: A problem with variables in 1.4
Jeff Schroeder wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, D. Christopher Dale
<dale_christopher(a)bah.com> wrote:
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> It appears that a problem was introduced in the 1.4 release on my fedora
> 10 laptop. The following section of the %post section of my kickstarts
> used to poduce a desired host name of dbg01.dbg.gesi (or whatever node I
> was building).
>
> # set hostname and populate hosts file
> cat >> /etc/sysconfig/networking << EOF
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=$grid$node.dbg.gesi
> EOF
>
> %hostname produces: dbg.dbg.gesi.
>
> If I escape the . after the variable as follows:
>
> # set hostname and populate hosts file
> cat >> /etc/sysconfig/networking << EOF
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=$grid$node\.dbg.gesi
> EOF
>
> %hostname is dbg01.dbg.gesi. The /etc/sysconfig/network file keeps the
> \, as expected.
>
Try something like this:
# set hostname and populate hosts file
#raw
cat >> /etc/sysconfig/networking << EOF
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=$grid$node.dbg.gesi
EOF
#end raw
See this for more info:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating#RawescapingandS...
I don't think Cheetah won't evaluate the $grid in your example either
(raw means don't evaluate anything), but you could do something clever like:
#set $myhost="$grid"+"$node"+".dg.gesi"
and then in the next line
HOSTNAME=$myhost
I'm not sure why it would be a regression in what you had, but that
should be plenty safe...
--Michael