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

[Matthew Darcy]

Michael, 

you appear to becoming my personal support unit, thank you.

The pre script was the option I was going for, I'm curious to have you've done this specfically as each time I try it, anaconda panics and fails on the install.

changing the server to the FQDN in the cobbler settings file makes sense in my head, but in the actual kickstart file it still keeps the server as "server" not "server.fqdn", do I have to regenerate the kickstart config, I'd have expected this to be dynamic.

Thanks,

Matt.


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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] on behalf of Michael Gliwinski [Michael.Gliwinski at henderson-group.com]
Sent: 23 May 2011 12:55
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] what sets the kickstart hostname URL at build time

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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