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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>My bad. Need to adjust my glasses. The parser caught me on the file extension; .ks versus .sh. All is well now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>But for the first point, I have never seen anyone comment on carriage returns showing up at the end of command execution if the %pre script is embedded in the Kickstart file. The clue for the work around was in an Oracle doc showing the script %included in the kickstart file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bledsoe, Alton <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 18, 2015 7:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'kickstart-list@redhat.com'<br><b>Subject:</b> Not finding /tmp/include created in %pre<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First, I had to work around the fact that the execution of shell commands are terminated with a carriage return including file names that are created during %pre. The work around was simply:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>%pre<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>%include <a href="http://%3cip%3e/path/to/script.sh">http://<ip>/path/to/script.sh</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>%post<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In this script.sh I write out network commands for 4 interfaces after capturing input from tty6.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I write to /tmp/net-include and, using alt-F2 shell terminal, I can readily see it in /tmp<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The %include /tmp/net-config in the kickstart file is generating a <b>PYCURL ERROR 22 … 404 not found</b> once parsed after the %pre section %end’s.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Why are these simple looking things that have many similar examples on the web not working?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>RHEL6.6<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Al Bledsoe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>++l|l++----+l||l+l||++l|||l++++-------+++--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PD&E Solutions Architect, Richardson, TX<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cell: 214-533-1698 Desk: 972-656-5341<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="Alton.Bledsoe@vce.com">Alton.Bledsoe@vce.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Somebody’s gotta do it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>