Hi, <br><br>I'm a newbie to FAI and am still in the process of digesting the documentation. I've managed to install a client via PXE and I've got reachability between the server and the client. The FAI version used is
3.1.8 under Debian etch. <br><br>The client is called demohost as in the FAI Guide and the IP assigned to is
<a href="http://172.16.55.130" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">172.16.55.130</a>. The problem is that neither of /etc/hostname nor /etc/hosts have the correct values. <br><br>Demohost:
<br><br>/etc/hostname :<br><a href="http://172.16.55.130" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">172.16.55.130
</a><br><br>/etc/hosts: <br><br>IPs & hosts assigned to different interfaces on the FAI server<br>as well as this strange line:<br><br><a href="http://172.16.55.130">172.16.55.130</a> <a href="http://172.16.55.130">
172.16.55.130</a>. <a href="http://172.16.55.130">172.16.55.130</a><br><br>A search through the client's logs yields the following:<br><br>#grep -iR etc/hostname /var/log/fai/172.16.55.130/<br><br>/var/log/fai/172.16.55.130/last/shell.log:fcopy: no matching file for any class for etc/hostname defined.
<br><br>#grep -iR etc/hosts /var/log/fai/172.16.55.130/<br><br>/var/log/fai/172.16.55.130/last/shell.log:fcopy: no matching file for any class for etc/hosts defined.<br>
/var/log/fai/172.16.55.130/last/fai.log:ainsl: appending to /tmp/target/etc/hosts: <a href="http://172.16.55.130">172.16.55.130</a> <a href="http://172.16.55.130">172.16.55.130</a>. <a href="http://172.16.55.130">172.16.55.130
</a><br><br>and nothing related in error.log.<br><br>On the FAI server I have:<br><br>farid@debian:/srv/fai/config$ grep -iR etc/hostname .*<br><br>./scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc:fcopy /etc/hostname || echo $HOSTNAME > $target/etc/hostname
<br>../config/scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc:fcopy /etc/hostname || echo $HOSTNAME > $target/etc/hostname<br><br>farid@debian:/srv/fai/config$ grep -iR etc/hosts .*<br><br>./files/etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf/FAISERVER:# on the clients. This line(s) will be added to $nfsroot/etc/hosts.
<br>./scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc:fcopy -iM /etc/hosts /etc/motd<br>./scripts/FAISERVER/10-conffiles:perl -e 'for (1..25) {printf "192.168.1.%s atom%02s\n",$_,$_;}' >> $target/etc/hosts<br>../config/files/etc/fai/make-
fai-nfsroot.conf/FAISERVER:# on the clients. This line(s) will be added to $nfsroot/etc/hosts.<br>../config/scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc:fcopy -iM /etc/hosts /etc/motd<br>../config/scripts/FAISERVER/10-conffiles:perl -e 'for (1..25) {printf "
192.168.1.%s atom%02s\n",$_,$_;}' >> $target/etc/hosts<br><br>
farid@debian:/srv/fai/config$ ls -l /srv/fai/config/files/etc/hosts/<br>total 4<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 671 2007-08-23 15:41 hosts<br><br>$cat /srv/fai/config/files/etc/hosts/hosts<br><br><a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1
</a> localhost debian<br><a href="http://172.16.55.1">172.16.55.1</a> master master.mynetwork<br><a href="http://172.16.55.130">172.16.55.130</a> demohost demohost.mynetwork<br>#The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
<br>::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback<br>fe00::0 ip6-localnet<br>ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix<br>ff02::1 ip6-allnodes<br>ff02::2 ip6-allrouters<br>ff02::3 ip6-allhosts<br><br><br>$less /srv/fai/config/files/etc/hostname/demohost<br>
demohost<br><br>BTW I have read about some fai user being created on the install server but I have none in my passwd file.<br><br>How am I supposed to feed the clients with the correct hostname and hosts?<br><br>Any help from you gurus would be appreciated!
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