fai.conf: defaults and other thougts ...

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:09:49 +0200, Ingo Wichmann <iw at linuxhotel.de> said:

    > Im thinking again of the installserver parameter in /etc/fai/fai.conf .

    > What does a user think, what is meant by "installserver" ? dhcp server? 
    > tftp server? server hosting the fai-install-filesystem? mirror? the 
    > server where the logs are sent to? All or some of them?
For me (and hopefully a usefull default) it's all of them.

    > I'm not sure, but i think it's the server hosting the 
    > fai-install-filesystem and, if not overwritten, the logserver.
That's a minimal default.

    > I think i would be nice to have the following solution for this:
    > After an ''aptitude install fai-server'' the parameter "installserver" 
    > should not be set in ''fai.conf''. And the default value used internally 
    > should be the output of ''hostname -f''.
Agree, and I will remove the variable $installserver completely.

I will also remove the variable $mirrorhost soon. I hope to find
useful default values in fai.conf and make-fai-nfsroot.conf for most
things, so the user do not need to edit that much when setting up an
install server with the default configuration.
-- 
regards Thomas