Getting install log on a remote machine

[Chowdhury, Chandan Dutta]

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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Steden
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 1:41 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Getting install log on a remote machine

> >I want to get the install time log on a remote machine, so that if I 
> >am away from the console of the machine being installed I can still 
> >have access to the anaconda logs of the machine being installed.
> >
> >Is there a way to do this in kickstart pre install script (asking 
> >anaconda to send logs to a network log server) ?
> 
> Not yet.  I just started working on all the logging support in 
> anaconda today.  The goal is to convert it to using Python's logging 
> class, which will allow us to log to files, syslog running on a remote

> machine, mail, web servers, sockets, etc.  I don't know if all those 
> mechanisms will make the cut for what we'll support, but at least one 
> network mechanism will be supported.
> 
> I guess now's as good a time as any to ask if people have any 
> particular features, annoyances, or comments on logging.
> 
I'd be happy to help out, if you're looking; I have been meaning to
implement something like this on my own, but a little hesitant to jump
right into something I'm still feeling my way around.

Syslogd support I would think would be essential ... I don't know about
any of the others, for my part.

Klaus

Hello All,

Thank you all for all your responses. My concern is if it is done at the
anaconda level (ofcource that is the right place to do it) how will I be
able to get the same feature on the previous versions(rhel2.1 or rhel3
etc). I was looking for may be a hack, some script which I can put in
the pre install part of the kickstart so that it works for all the
distributions, if you have any suggestion on this , plz help me out. I
tried running a webserver using python on /tmp in the install machine.
Unfortunately I dint find the BaseHTTPServer.py in the runtime env of
the machine being installed.

As for the modifications to anaconda, it will be great to have the
remote logging feature in anaconda.

Thanks
Chandan