Can't get files to %include

ayaz pathaan ayazpathaan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 09:21:22 UTC 2012


Dear All,

I am not able to get ssh of a remote server . How will i get the console of
the server. ( ssh is not working and vnc is also not allowed .) . What is
the otherway you can access the server ?

Please give the answer is very argent

regards,
Ayaz Khan

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Michael Hayes M <
michael.m.hayes at ericsson.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Adrian is correct in saying that you need to specify anything in the pre
> section, because it's then that anything can be set.
>
> If you put something into /tmp in the pre section, then before the pre
> section ends, copy it to /mnt/sysimage/tmp and then once in the post
> section, it will be in /tmp and available for you use.
> Basically, /tmp from the pre section is no longer available in the post
> section (but it is available in a post section if you specify --nochroot).
> What was in /mnt/sysimage/tmp is now in /tmp in the post section
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Oliver [mailto:joliver at john-oliver.net]
> Sent: 19 April 2012 15:05
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: Can't get files to %include
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:56:50PM +0300, Adrian Cruceru wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I think you should do all processing regarding %include in %pre,
> > anything in %post is too late to change %include statements (system is
> > already installed).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrian
> >
> > On 04/17/2012 03:49 PM, John Oliver wrote:
> > >RHEL 5.4  In %pre, I can %include /mnt/source/isolinux/setup-questions
> > >But if I first copy setup-questions to /tmp/ks-files/, I can no longer
> > >include it.  Nor do my %include statements in %post for files I copied
> > >to /tmp/ks-files/ work.  What's the deal?  How the heck do I get
> > >includes to work???
>
> Hi, Adrian.  I'm not sure what you mean by "it's too late"... it's an
> include.  I can't include something in %pre that must be done in %post
>
> And that doesn't explain why %include
> /mnt/source/isolinux/setup-questions works, but copying setup-questions
> to /tmp/ and then %include /tmp/setup-questions does not, even though
> /tmp/setup-questions exists, is readable, and contains the exact same
> code that works just fine when included from the DVD.
>
> I have several kickstarts, and chunks of code that are common to all of
> them.  I want to have those common chunks in one place, so when I need
> to make a change, I make it in one place and the change will
> automatically be seen by all kickstarts.  Just in case there's a
> question of terminology here.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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