[Spacewalk-list] what sets the kickstart hostname URL at build time

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Monday 23 May 2011 11:51:09 Matthew Darcy wrote:
> 1.) what sets the hostname in the kickstart file, how can I force it to be
> spacewalk01.domain.com rather than spacewalk01

You can force it by setting 'server' option in /etc/cobbler/settings (IIRC).

> 2.) using the kickstart network options can I set the default dns search
> names?

It appears there's no way to do that (at least in EL5).  What I do is I set 
IP, netmask, gateway, nameservers and hostname using the network line in ks, 
and I set search and domain in resolv.conf with this in a %pre script:

echo domain $name_servers_search[0] >> /etc/resolv.conf
echo search $str.join(' ', $name_servers_search) >> /etc/resolv.conf

(note I use $name_servers_search variable here which I set using cobbler)

I also have something similar in a %post script as I don't think 
/etc/resolv.conf is getting copied into new sysroot (had some problems with 
that).


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