[et-mgmt-tools] Two Minor Problems with Cobbler

[Michael DeHaan]

Demetri Mouratis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been spending quite a bit of time with cobbler lately and have
> run into two very small issues.  First, running cobbler sync with
> manage_dhcp: 1 set drops an empty dhcpd.conf directory in the PWD.

Good catch... this apparently came across in the move back to Cheetah 
for templating.    I'll commit and push the fix.


[mdehaan at mdehaan cobbler]$ hg diff
diff -r 7f3dc5cdd1b40c7521d2ce2052388e7df69906dc cobbler/action_sync.py
--- a/cobbler/action_sync.py    Fri Mar 02 11:07:10 2007 -0500
+++ b/cobbler/action_sync.py    Thu Mar 08 11:40:52 2007 -0500
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ class BootSync:
       
         t = Template(source=data, searchList=[metadata])
         data_out = str(t)
-        self.mkdir(os.path.basename(out_path))
+        self.mkdir(os.path.dirname(out_path))
         fd = open(out_path, "w+")
         fd.write(data_out)
         fd.close()



>
> [root at hemops2 ~]# cd /tmp/
> [root at hemops2 tmp]# ls
> [root at hemops2 tmp]# cobbler sync
> sync distro: centos44
> Shutting down dhcpd:                                       [  OK  ]
> Starting dhcpd:                                            [  OK  ]
> [root at hemops2 tmp]# ls
> dhcpd.conf
>
> Second, I have two configuration changes I need made to
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. These have to do with NIC ordering and
> a doc I found here:
>
> http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v2.pdf
>
> There, it suggests making two changes to the pxe configuration, adding
> the following lines:
>
> IPAPPEND 2
> APPEND ksdevice=bootif

> I put a config file called default.pxe in /etc/cobbler and run cobbler
> sync but I see a vanilla default file in
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default.

Kickstart parameters can be managed with a cobbler profile or even on 
specific systems or distros.

"cobbler profile add ... --kopts="ksdevice=bootif otheroption=blah etc 
etc foo  etc"

The vanilla cobbler "default" file in recent versions now is used for 
PXE menus.   If you would like to use a specific profile as a default 
profile instead, you can do the following:

cobbler system add --name=default 
--profile=name-of-profile-to-use-as-default

If you have a kernel option you would like to use on every single 
cobbler profile you have, you can also add that kernel option to 
/var/lib/cobbler/settings and it will automagically appear on every 
profile and system.   (run "cobbler sync" to apply changes)


>
> Thanks.
>
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