RE: Post Install Script Troubles

["Johnston, Christopher (IDS DM&DS)" <cjohnston exchange ml com>]

Nasty ^Ms


Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Smith [mailto:patms ev1 net] 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 6:06 PM
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: RE: Post Install Script Troubles

Dont use wordpad to edit the files ;) I ran into the same problem recently,
notepad works fine for me, but anything else in Windows ruins it.

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Regards,

Patrick Smith
Sr. Systems Administrator
Everyone's Internet/Rackshack.net
patms ev1 net

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:kickstart-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Robert Denton
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:54 PM
To: 'kickstart-list redhat com'
Subject: Post Install Script Troubles


Hello all, I am installing RH9 over HTTP and I am using a kickstart file on
the same server.  The installation itself runs flawlessly and every aspect
of the ks.cfg seems to work except for the %post portion.  I am trying to
create a few directories as well as using the "sample" offered in the
redhat.com tutorial.  Here is the script:

%post --nochroot
echo "Kickstart-installed RH9 on `/bin/date`" > /mnt/sysimage/etc/motd
mkdir /mnt/sysimage/var/www/html/sound
mkdir /mnt/sysimage/var/www/html/code

This script seems to run, but not the way I want it to. (Note that the line
that starts with echo is from the redhat tutorial:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kickst
art2-postinstallconfig.html)

The directories are created but with a question mark after them, and the
motd file is not modified, but a file called motd^M is created with the
correct verbiage in it.  Thus an ls -a of the html dir produces:

.  ..  code? sound? usage

I have also tried the same script without the --nochroot and without the
/mnt/sysimage/ but that doesn't work either. Does anyone have any idea what
I am doing wrong here?

Thanks in advance,
Robert



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