kickstart w/o netconfig in RHEL5

[jim Pharis]

That will do the trick. Thanks Jason.

On Dec 17, 2007 9:10 AM, Jason Kohles <email at jasonkohles.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 14, 2007, at 11:02 AM, jim Pharis wrote:
>
> > Kickstarters,
> >
> > We kickstart systems in a quarantined network. Once an
> > installation has completed, we move the system to its actual network,
> > and then run post-installation scripts to configure the actual network
> > and then cfengine the machine. We use a package called netconfig in
> > our post-installation scripts to move the system to its permanent
> > network just before we do the key exchange w/ our cfengine server.
> >
> > netconfig appears to be long gone and removed from RHEL5. The
> > alternative tool appears to be system-configure-network-tui, but it
> > has a
> > GUI and requires user interaction. We need a command line tool to
> > configure the network interface. Any suggestions for solving this.
> > The only
> > alternative way I can think of would be to write post-installation
> > scripts by hand to edit
> > the ifcfg-eth files. Can anybody think of better process/tool?
> >
>
> In addition to system-config-network-tui, there is also a command-line
> tool called system-config-network-cmd.  The easiest way to handle this
> is to use it to export the configuration, modify the file as required,
> then re-import it.  That way you don't even have to worry about where
> the files are stored, just let the tools handle the files...
>
> # -e for export
> system-config-network-cmd -e > /tmp/network-config
>
> # modify /tmp/network-config as required
>
> # -i = import, -c = clear existing configuration before import, -f
> import this file...
> system-config-network-cmd -i -c -f /tmp/network-config
>
> --
> Jason Kohles, RHCA RHCDS RHCE
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- Jim Pharis