kickstart questions

Bill Tangren bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Wed Nov 15 21:34:08 UTC 2006


Kevin Kramer wrote:
> when we build machines we put our "tweaks" in the kickstart.cfg file 
> after the %post line. typical shell style commands will do.

So, if a tweak is to replace the default sshd_config with a modified one, I can 
put the modified sshd_config on the kickstart CD (or wherever I put the 
kickstart data), and it will mv the modified version over the default?


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> Kevin Kramer
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> 512.418.5725
> Centaur Technology, Inc.
> www.centtech.com
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> Bill Tangren wrote the following on 11/15/06 13:37:
>> I have a RHEL ES 4 system that I just installed. On it, I made quite a 
>> few security changes to configuration files, chmoding certain system 
>> files, etc. I'd like to use kickstart to "clone" this system onto 
>> other boxes. I've read through the system-config-kickstart 
>> documentation, and done some googling, and I can't see where it says 
>> that kickstart will use these changes on the new boxes. AAMOF, it 
>> LOOKS like I have to specify installation of entire classes of rpms, 
>> like ALL administrations tools.
>>
>> Could someone point me in the direction of an FAQ or something else 
>> that will explain how to configure kickstart to mirror one system on 
>> another?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Bill
>>
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