On Jan 30, 2008 3:28 PM, Gerrard Geldenhuis <<a href="mailto:Gerrard.Geldenhuis@datacash.com">Gerrard.Geldenhuis@datacash.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Hi<br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I have written a script but it does not work as
expected.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The script is a post script with nochroot.<br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I tested the dnsdomainname command in the console
after my script failed and saw that it returns localdomain.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Hostname and uname returns localhost.localdomain.<br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">We want the time servers to be different depending on
in which DC the server is build… </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Can anyone suggest a better method of doing what I am
trying to achieve here?</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The script:<br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"># Kickstart PRE Script</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"># Set time to ensure SSL RHN Activation can complete
successfully</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">echo "starting time sync"</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">date</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">/mnt/sysimage/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b
ntp.$(/bin/dnsdomainname)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">/mnt/sysimage/sbin/hwclock --systohc</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">date</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">echo "time sync complete"</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">#backup old file</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">cp /mnt/sysimage/etc/ntp.conf
/mnt/sysimage/tmp/ntp.conf.old</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">#create new config file</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">cat > /tmp/sysimage/etc/ntp.conf <<'EOF'</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"># /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for ntpd</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"># ntpd will use syslog() if logfile is not defined
#logfile /var/log/ntpd</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats filegen
loopstats file loopstats type day enable filegen peerstats file peerstats type
day enable filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">EOF</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">echo "server
ntp.$(/mnt/sysimage/bin/dnsdomainname)" >> /tmp/ntp.conf</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">echo "server
ntp2.$(/mnt/sysimage/bin/dnsdomainname)" >> /tmp/ntp.conf<br> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Regards</span></font></p>
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</blockquote><div><br>Have you tried to start the network service ?<br><br>service network start<br><br>/Mats<br></div></div>