[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler on Solaris 9

[Michael DeHaan]

David Mackintosh wrote:
> 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.
>   
Neat.   For things like getting "cobbler check" to behave better, you 
might be able to get away by changing
http_bin and so forth in /var/lib/cobbler/settings.   Things like the 
http restart probably don't work though.
> (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.
>   
Definitely, I'd like to see it.
>   
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