[et-mgmt-tools] [Cobbler 0.3.6] mod_python piece of kickstart tracking busted for RHEL4U4, RHEL/Centos users please read.

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> As I've just recently found out during testing, the kickstart 
>> tracking in 0.3.6 apparently is incompatible with the Apache in RHEL4 
>> U4.
>
> ...
>
> This is now fixed, and I've already uploaded 0.3.8 to et.redhat.com 
> and pushed it out to the mirrors. 
> If you have 0.3.6 installed on RHEL4 or Centos 4, just delete 
> "/etc/httpd/conf.d/cobbler.conf" and re-run "cobbler sync" after the 
> upgrade, and cobbler will take care of it.  
> Hopefully no one is too confused, if so, ask me.
> Also, everyone will probably want to run a "cobbler sync" after the 
> upgrade to get the new syslog parameters added to the install kernels 
> automatically.  This will allow finer grained results from kickstart 
> tracking, which is definitely a Good Thing (TM).   If you don't sync, 
> nothing bad will happen, but you just won't get the improved kickstart 
> tracking/logging until you do.
>
> --Michael
>
>
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Also, after upgrade, the syslog watcher daemon (the thing that enables 
the spiffy new kickstart status commands) won't be running initially, so 
just "/sbin/service cobblersyslogd start" to engage that.   Last email 
today, I promise.   Maybe :)

--Michael