auto-configure NTP in Kickstart?
Jarle Bjørgeengen
jarle at bjorgeengen.net
Tue Jan 6 16:06:26 UTC 2009
On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:48 , Cameron Mura wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know how to setup NTP info via kickstart ? More
> specifically, I'd like to do the following on Fedora 10 systems via
> the kickstart mechanism:
>
> 1) Specify NTP servers (e.g., ntp1.virginia.edu,
> ntp2.virginia.edu, ...)
>
Just use
cat << EOF > /etc/ntp.conf
whatever
you
want
to be in
ntp.conf
EOF
in your %post section
> 2) Enable / activate NTP -- I.e., What one would get by running
> 'system-config-time' and clicking the "Enable Network Time Protocol"
> box.
>
chkconfig ntp on
in the %post
I also recommend man chkconfig
> I know this stuff can set manually, post-installation, via the
> system-config-time route, and that it also can be setup immediately
> after a kickstart-based install by setting "firstboot --enable" to
> run the Setup Agent upon first reboot (...and then manually entering
> the info at that screen.) But seems as though this could be done
> at the kickstart level ??
>
> I couldn't find anything on ntp-in-kickstart in the Anaconda
> Kickstart reference at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
> or by searching around the web. I naively did the following in a
> ks file to modify ntp.conf, but that doesn't actually 'enable' ntp
> on the system:
>> cat >> /etc/ntp.conf <<EOF_ntpconfig
>> server ntp1.virginia.edu dynamic
>> server ntp2.virginia.edu dynamic
>> server ntp3.virginia.edu dynamic
>> EOF_ntpconfig
Ah, so you have already the answer to Q1 ;-)
>
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