echo and logging in %post

[Ingo Jochim]

Thank you Jason.
You were right.
I did create the kickstart script on a linux machine. But then I used 
WinScp to copy the file to a Windows machine. There I have GuildFTPD 
running as ftp server.
WinScp or GuildFTPD make the changes to my file.
Now I started the kickstart script from a floppy and everything works fine.

Thank you again.
Ingo


Jason Kohles wrote:

> On 12/14/05, *Ingo Jochim* <i.jochim at querysoft.de 
> <mailto:i.jochim at querysoft.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hopefully you can help on this.
>
>     I'm doing a kickstart installation on Fedora Core 4.
>     I like to install some additional packages in the %post part of
>     kickstart.
>
>     I like to create a new file and want to write something into it.
>     Here is my code:
>     echo $RANDOM > "/root/ID"
>
>     The result in the file is always fine.
>     But the new file name is strange to me.
>     If I do a "ls -l" I get "ID?" displayed.
>     If I just write the beginning of the file and use the TAB-key then
>     I get
>     "ID^M".
>
>
> You are creating your kickstart configuration in a windows/dos text 
> editor, and it has windows line endings, rather than unix ones.  
> Either use a text editor that can save with unix line endings, or use 
> something like the dos2unix command  after you create it, or FTP it in 
> text mode to your server before using it.  You need to do something to 
> get rid of the extra ^M at the end of every line in your ks.cfg.
>
> -- 
> Jason Kohles
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