[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler on Solaris 9

[David Mackintosh]

Although firmly filed under "stupid computer trick", it may amuse
you to know that the .tar.gz of cobbler 0.3.5 will install correctly
on a SPARC Solaris 9 system with the csw python installed.

Predictably it isn't happy about not being able to find httpd, but
the setup of distros, profiles, and systems works correctly, and
from this platform I have installed several flavors of CentOS,
RHEL-3ES and RHEL-4ES to i386-family systems.

(Importing distros (via rsync) has not been tested as I manage my
distros through other methods, but offhand there isn't really any
reason why this wouldn't work.)

Why might this be useful?  Well I already have a set of scripts for
managing my hosts infrastructure (DNS, NIS, DHCP) plus a tftp server
for Solaris Kickstarts already in existance, and this lets me do
everything from one server.

So I can now say:

# cobbler_byname --host tpx18 --profile RHEL-3ES-U6-i386-ws

...and it generates and runs the appropriate cobbler command for
me, instead of me having to dig out the MAC and IP address for
the system manually.

cobbler_byname is a perl script which I can provide if anyone is
interested.

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         dave at xdroop.com  | http://www.xdroop.com
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