On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Michael DeHaan
<mdehaan(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Terry McIntyre wrote:
>
>> A poster asked how to customize a hundred nearly-identical systems;
>> this is a lot like my environment.
>>
>> We have a single kickstart template, and only the mountpoints differ
>> on a per-system basis.
>>
>> The post section includes:
>>
>> SNIPPET::config_mounts
>>
>> Instead of a single snippets/config_mounts script, there is a
>> directory at /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/per_system/config_mounts ;
>> inside this directory is a script snippet for each system, with the same name.
>>
>> More info on the cobbler wiki.
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> Using subprofiles and per_profile snippets may also work for you if you
> have a set of them that are quasi-indentical ...
>
> (i..e webservers and webservers-pittsburgh and webservers-winston-salem
> and dbservers and dbservers-san-diego...)
>
I'm failing to see how you couldn't replace 50 snippets (one per host)
with 1 cheetah template and some builtin hostname logic like the
timezone example I posted showed.