[et-mgmt-tools] Contents of ks.cfg gets overwritten

[Harry Hoffman]

Hi Tom,

You'll probably want to put your kickstart file in /etc/cobbler

When you run cobbler sync, cobbler parses through your kickstart file 
and takes any templating you've added and transforms it for use by anaconda.

For example:
network --bootproto=static --ip=$ip_address --netmask=$netmask 
--gateway=$gatewa
y --nameserver=$nameserver --hostname=$hostname --device=eth0 --onboot=on

$ip_address, $netmask, etc. are all variables that cobbler will replace 
with actual values (that's I've provided when I did a "cobbler system 
add..."

Once cobbler has done this it takes the resulting kickstart file and 
drops it in the directories /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts or 
/var/www/cobbler/kickstarts_sys

This way if you change the template kickstart (e.g. 
/etc/cobbler/rhel-5-webservers.ks) to add something new then you can 
just run "cobbler sync".

If you had 5 systems setup to use a profile with that kickstart file all 
5 would be updated automagically, instead of having to deal with each.

HTH,
Harry



Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Well i get further and then take 2 steps back and i am sure you are 
> getting tired of me but 1 more if i may
> 
> I put the contents of my ks.cfg in for example
> 
> /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts/CentOS-4.4-i386/ks.cfg
> 
> now i can add this profile and set a system against this and do a 
> cobbler sync and all seems fine.
> 
> When the build starts anaconda may bomb on something and then when i 
> check /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts/CentOS-4.4-i386/ks.cfg again the 
> changes i made have been removed and the changes lost.
> 
> Can anyone point me to docs that explain this behaviour please as i have 
> searched and cant see where to start.
> 
> thanks
> 
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