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

[Harry Hoffman]

cobbler system add --name=w3.fqdn.com --ksmeta="disks=sda,sdb 
nameserver=192.168.1.3 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.201"

man cobbler, and the wiki and doc webpages are great for this.

the variables usually correspond with keywords that anaconda considers 
valid within a kickstart file.

so, --hostname=some.host.com, not HOSTNAME

HTH,
Harry


Tom Brown wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> 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, $netmask, etc. are all variables that cobbler will 
>> replace with actual values (that's I've provided when I did a "cobbler 
>> system add..."
>>
>> Once cobbler has done this it takes the resulting kickstart file and 
>> drops it in the directories /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts or 
>> /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts_sys
>>
>> This way if you change the template kickstart (e.g. 
>> /etc/cobbler/rhel-5-webservers.ks) to add something new then you can 
>> just run "cobbler sync".
>>
>> If you had 5 systems setup to use a profile with that kickstart file 
>> all 5 would be updated automagically, instead of having to deal with 
>> each.
>>
> 
> Can anyone help me with adding these variables to the system add command as
> 
> # cobbler system add --name=00:0C:29:71:D7:4D --profile=CentOS-4.5-i386 
> HOSTNAME=test IPADDR=192.168.10.23
> this command doesn't take an option called 'HOSTNAME'
> 
> and this is the section from my kickstart.ks
> 
> network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --onboot=on --ip=$IPADDR 
> --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.10.1 --nameserver 192.168.10.4 
> --hostname=$HOSTNAME
> 
> thanks for all the help so far
>  
> 
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