Kickstart-list Digest, Vol 59, Issue 1

Thu Jan 8 16:01:33 UTC 2009

Hi Harry, Bryan, & Jarle,

Thanks a lot for the useful tips and suggestions -- I've got my 
kickstart / ntp problem fixed now; it was simply my own misunderstanding 
in thinking that the 'd' in the 'ntpd' init process meant purely server 
behavior (rather than ntp client too) and therefore not considering 
activating this service.

All the best,
Cameron

=== kickstart-list-request at redhat.com wrote (on 01/06/2009 12:00 PM): ===
> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. auto-configure NTP in Kickstart? (Cameron Mura)
>    2. Re: auto-configure NTP in Kickstart? (Harry Hoffman)
>    3. Re: auto-configure NTP in Kickstart? (Bryan Schneiders)
>    4. Re: auto-configure NTP in Kickstart? (Jarle Bj?rgeengen)
>   
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> auto-configure NTP in Kickstart?
> From:
> Cameron Mura <cmura at virginia.edu>
> Date:
> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:48:39 -0500
> To:
> kickstart-list at redhat.com, Fedora Mailing List 
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>, uvalug at virginia.edu
>
> To:
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> <fedora-list at redhat.com>, uvalug at virginia.edu
> CC:
>
>
> 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, ...)
>
> 2) Enable / activate NTP -- I.e., What one would get by running 
> 'system-config-time' and clicking the "Enable Network Time Protocol" box.
>
> 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
> Any tips (or pointers to possible advice) would be most sincerely 
> appreciated...
>
> Cameron
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: auto-configure NTP in Kickstart?
> From:
> Harry Hoffman <hhoffman at ip-solutions.net>
> Date:
> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:01:40 -0500
> To:
> cmura at virginia.edu, Discussion list about Kickstart 
> <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>
> To:
> cmura at virginia.edu, Discussion list about Kickstart 
> <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> CC:
>
>
> 1) perl -p -i -e 's/0.fedora.pool.ntp.org/NTP_SERVER_0/' /etc/ntp.conf
>    perl -p -i -e 's/1.fedora.pool.ntp.org/NTP_SERVER_1/' /etc/ntp.conf
>    perl -p -i -e 's/2.fedora.pool.ntp.org/NTP_SERVER_2/' /etc/ntp.conf
> (the above is if your already chrooted in kickstart)
>
> 2) chkconfig ntp on
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 10:48 -0500, 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, ...)
>>
>> 2) Enable / activate NTP -- I.e., What one would get by running
>> 'system-config-time' and clicking the "Enable Network Time Protocol"
>> box.
>>
>> 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
>>>       
>> Any tips (or pointers to possible advice) would be most sincerely
>> appreciated...
>>
>> Cameron
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>
>
>   
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: auto-configure NTP in Kickstart?
> From:
> Bryan Schneiders <bschneiders at woti.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:02:16 -0500
> To:
> cmura at virginia.edu, Discussion list about Kickstart 
> <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>
> To:
> cmura at virginia.edu, Discussion list about Kickstart 
> <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> CC:
>
>
> Our machines get NTP server information from DHCP, so I just comment 
> out the default servers in the post section with sed:
>
> sed -i.orig -e "s/\(server [0-9].fedora.pool.ntp.org dynamic\)/#\1/" 
> /etc/ntp.conf
>
> I believe you can enable ntp with the "services" command in the top of 
> the kickstart file.
>
> services --enabled=ntpd
>
> Bryan Schneiders
>
> 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, ...)
>>
>> 2) Enable / activate NTP -- I.e., What one would get by running 
>> 'system-config-time' and clicking the "Enable Network Time Protocol" 
>> box.
>>
>> 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
>> Any tips (or pointers to possible advice) would be most sincerely 
>> appreciated...
>>
>> Cameron
>>
>>
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>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: auto-configure NTP in Kickstart?
> From:
> Jarle Bjørgeengen <jarle at bjorgeengen.net>
> Date:
> Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:06:26 +0100
> To:
> cmura at virginia.edu, Discussion list about Kickstart 
> <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>
> To:
> cmura at virginia.edu, Discussion list about Kickstart 
> <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> CC:
> Fedora Mailing List <fedora-list at redhat.com>, uvalug at virginia.edu
>
>
>
> 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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