[Spacewalk-list] how to register kickstarted systems into spacewalk

[rob morrien]

Josh,


i added the stuff , i had to do ALT F3  to enter the hostname, but
the value from KS_HOSTNAME was not added to my system which i kickstarted.

the name was still localhost

regards rob




> Rob,
>
> You can accomplish this by a  simple script in the pre section...
>
>
> ############
> %pre
> ############
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo -n "Enter hostname: "
> read KS_HOSTNAME
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ... And in the "--hostname" flag of the network line put our variable:
>
> --hostname $KS_HOSTNAME
>
>
>
> Let me know if this works.
>
> -Josh
>
>
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> I haven't had a great deal of luck with that other than editing the .ks
> file each time I build a machine and changing this line:
>
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --hostname machine.domain.com
>
> Not bad for doing one machine at a time but, not good for doing a bunch at
> one time.
>
>
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> spacewalk
>
> Rich,
>
> i will test this as soon as possible
>
> but i want to give every machine an unique hostname
>
> regards rob
>
>> I have added this to my kickstart file for all our production machines.
>> I just add the following to %post section:
>>
>> ##Add machine to Spacewalk server
>>
>> rhnreg_ks --bla bla bla
>> yum update -y
>>
>> That way when it reboots, it is registered and fully updated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
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