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<DIV><SPAN class=102221419-16082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>What
version of RedHat Linux are you using?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=102221419-16082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Sounds
to me like you are using RHEL 4 with 2.6 and udev. If that's the
case, then you need to</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=102221419-16082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>put a
"do-dad" in the proper place to have it recreated properly. I'm not
referring to rc.local. There's</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=102221419-16082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>a
expected way to do it, I just can't recall off the top of my head. But I
could...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Lamon, Frank III
[mailto:Frank_LaMon@csx.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:55
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Red Hat Network Users List<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [rhn-users]
Making mknod in Kickstart "stick"<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=476035316-16082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You
could have that line appended to the rc.local file during %post - then it
would run on every system boot. Probably another dozen ways to do it as
well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Mallasch, Paul<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:14
PM<BR><B>To:</B> rhn-users@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [rhn-users] Making
mknod in Kickstart "stick"<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=913570516-16082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm performing a
Kickstart installation to a remote machine and I need to create a device so
that I can receive IPMI message from another piece of hardware using a
daemon.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=913570516-16082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>mknod /dev/ipmi0
c 254 0</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=913570516-16082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>works fine if I
login to a console and execute the step manually, but I need to do it within
my ks.cfg file and make it "stick" so the device remains for subsequent
boot-ups.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=913570516-16082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've it tried
%pre & %post, but obviously remain confused since it does not
"stick". I can see it created before the Kickstart reboots
however.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=913570516-16082005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, a nice
overview of the %post %pre environments would really be appreciated!
Thanks!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=913570516-16082005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>--Paul</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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