adding commands to installer image

[John Summerfield]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> On 08/07/2009 03:31 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Right, and although that seems a but hackerish, in %post, you can
>>> ntpdate <server>; touch /path/to/timestamp-file, no? You wouldn't
>>> really need to adjust the installer images for that purpose, you just
>>> need to make sure the appropriate ntp/ntpdate package is installed.
>>
>> %post is too late to ensure files are not created "in the future" as the
>> installation has been done with the wrong time (maybe) and timezone
>> (probably).
>>
> 
> His reasoning though was not /etc/mail/sendmail.mc was the problem, but 
> his own timestamp file.


I quote, "1) The systems that are being installed arrive with the time 
set to some local time that is unknown but we want it set to UTC.  This 
needs to be set prior to installing any RPM packages."



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