[rhn-users] kickstart post scripts always ignored

Nick Baronian kvetch at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 12:23:03 UTC 2006


Doh!  Darn ^M's.  I can't believe I didn't think about that.
Thanks man.
Nick

On 6/19/06, Lamon, Frank III <Frank_LaMon at csx.com> wrote:
> I've seen similar symptoms in the past - it was always a script that had been edited on a Windows machine in our case (stupid end of line characters). If your script has been touch with a win editor try running the dos2unix command against the script to clean it up and try it again - always worked for us.
>
> Frank L.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Nick Baronian
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 5:18 PM
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] kickstart post scripts always ignored
>
>
> Lately I have been having problems getting stuff to run in the %post
> section in my kickstarts.  I never use to have a problem running %post
> stuff but lately I have tried multiple times to use a kickstart file
> and have it perform tasks in the %post section but everytime I try it
> fails to run anything in %post.  Below is a paste of a ks.cfg file I
> have tried using.  Does anyone see anything wrong with this?  The
> runlevels, nor users never get created and it never runs my mounted
> script.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick Baronian
>
> # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.
> install
> nfs --server=172.16.12.162 --dir=/u01/discs/ent4
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> xconfig --card "ATI Radeon 7000" --videoram 16384 --hsync 31.5-37.9
> --vsync 50-70 --resolution 800x600 --depth 16 --startxonboot
> --defaultdesktop gnome
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 172.16.12.116 --netmask
> 255.255.0.0 --gateway 172.16.1.254 --nameserver 172.16.15.46
> --hostname test.example.com
> network --device eth1 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp --hostname test.example.com
> rootpw --iscrypted $ftgddffngmdfgkaTdJC5g8678
> selinux --disabled
> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
> timezone --utc America/New_York
> bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet"
> # The following is the partition information you requested
> # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
> # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
> # not guaranteed to work
> clearpart --all --drives=sda
> part /boot --fstype "ext3" --size=100 --ondisk=sda
> part / --fstype "ext3" --size=55443 --ondisk=sda
> part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sda
> part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sda
> part /var --fstype "ext3" --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda
>
> %packages
> @ engineering-and-scientific
> @ admin-tools
> @ editors
> @ xemacs
> @ emacs
> @ system-tools
> @ gnome-software-development
> @ xemacs
> @ text-internet
> @ x-software-development
> @ gnome-desktop
> @ dialup
> @ ftp-server
> @ legacy-software-development
> @ emacs
> @ smb-server
> @ base-x
> @ graphics
> @ web-server
> @ ruby
> @ server-cfg
> @ sound-and-video
> @ development-tools
> @ xemacs
> @ ruby
> @ graphical-internet
> -evolution-webcal
> grub
> -system-config-printer-gui
> -xchat
> -gcc-java
> kernel-smp
> -gnomemeeting
> -gimp-print-utils
> kernel-smp-devel
> -java-1.4.2-gcj-compat
> -evolution
> -kernel-hugemem-devel
> -gaim
> e2fsprogs
>
> %post
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 atd on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 ypbind off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 snmptrapd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 rpcidmapd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 squid off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 cups off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 lm_sensors on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 1messagebus on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 sendmail on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 smb off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 winbind off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 pcmcia off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 mdmpd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 vncserver off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 spamassassin off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 netplugd pff
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 vsftpd on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 arptables_jf off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 tux off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 ipvsadm off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 haldaemon on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 anacron off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 mdmonitor off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 sshd on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 rpcsvcgssd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 irqbalance on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 gpm off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 snmpd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 cpuspeed on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 kudzu off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 nfslock off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 xinetd on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 dataeng off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 firstboot off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 ccsd on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 saslauthd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 readahead_early off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 rgmanager on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 cups-config-daemon off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 apmd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 autofs on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 dc_server off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 bluetooth off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 acpid on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 nscd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 syslog on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 microcode_ctl off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 smartd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 xfs off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 iptables off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 rawdevices on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 network on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 psacct off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 rpcgssd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 ntpd on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 rhnsd on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 netfs on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 crond on
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 diskdump off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 nfs off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 netdump off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 isdn off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 auditd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 portmap off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 NetworkManager off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 pulse off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 httpd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 readahead off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 irda off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 dc_client off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 qlremote off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 instsvcdrv off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 klogin off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 cups-lpd off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 chargen-udp off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 kshell off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 time-udp off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 daytime off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 krb5-telnet off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 echo-udp off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 eklogin off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 chargen off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 gssftp off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 echo off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 rsync off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 daytime-udp off
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 time off
> /usr/sbin/useradd nick
> mkdir /mnt/temp2
> mount -o nolock 172.16.12.162:/u01/kickstart /mnt/temp2
> open -s -w -- /mnt/temp2/postinstall
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