Post-Installation scripts execution ordering

Hugh Brown hbrown at divms.uiowa.edu
Wed Jun 8 16:16:55 UTC 2011



On 06/08/2011 10:57 AM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a kickstart file with multiple %post.  The reason why I am doing so
> is because I have %post that is a bash script and I have another %post that
> is a Perl script.
>
> Does Anaconda executes %post in sequential order or in parallel with
> threads?
>
> What I want to accomplish is I want my %post bash script runs first then my
> %post Perl script.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

It should be easy to test, have each script put a time stamp into a file 
and compare the time stamps.

Depending on your kickstart set up, you can also have the bash script 
copy the perl script to the local system and then call it, or run it 
from an nfs share.

Hugh




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