Some issues

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:58:43PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:15:01 +0000, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de> said:
> 
>     > There are several items on my wish list though:
> 
>     > - If I use an MD5 encrypted password (a special one that contains a / in
>     >   the salt field) I get a crippled entry in /etc/shadow (It's already in
>     >   variables.sh, so something went wrong before). Only the part starting
> 
> try single quote ' not doubble quotes as in this eg.
> 
> rootpw='asdfser24234ewsd23d'
> I hope this will work.
OK; I'll try. Where is the value written to variables.sh?

>     > - I'd like to have support for more filesystems in the install kernel.
> Which?

XFS. Perhaps Reiser. But XFS is most important (for me).
Using xfsprogs, I can format XFS partitions during install, but cannot
write to them...

>     > - task logging could use some time stamping (also for faimond)
> But what if the time on the install client will not be set (timeserver
> is not defined...). Maybe the faimond should do timestamping.
Even then relative timestamps in the logs might help putting them into
right order. Yes, faimond should do its own timestamping, agreed.

>     > - an easy way to append "append=..." lines to grub/menu.lst during
>     >   kernel install (without tampering with the file afterwards)
> 
>     > - make-fai-nfsroot might be able to skip the NFS server reconfig (I know
>     >   what I'm doing, and I'm running the FAI server on a production
>     >   machine, so restarting -not reloading- the NFS server is a bad idea)
> OK. should be a small patch.
> 
>     > - the tasksel issue
> fixed in 2.6.2
... and in your preliminary version. I apologize for not replying
before, have been a bit busy with a lot of other things.

>     > Also hints how to install a YP master server (files copied from a
>     > non-NIS setup) using FAI would be appreciated, I couldn't find anything
>     > about this in the docs...
> This is not the scope of FAI, it's mot a nis howto question which I
> will not answer in my docs.

Solved! 
chroot $target domainname $DOMAIN
chroot $target sh -c "cd /var/yp && make NOPUSH=true target"
would do anything I need. I didn't setup a slave server yet, but it's
certainly easier (since ypinit -s doesn't require interaction)
$DOMAIN would be set from /etc/defaultdomain.

> BTW here's the code I created some days ago to saet up an yo master server.
> 
> if ifclass NISSERVER; then
>     mkdir -p $target/var/yp/$YPDOMAIN
this would be done by "make target"
>     rm -f    $target/var/yp/$YPDOMAIN/* $target/var/yp/ypservers
>     for s in $YPSRVR; do
>         echo "ypserver $s" >> $target/var/yp/ypservers
>     done
I get the ypservers file from my files/ tree.
>     cat $target/var/yp/ypservers | awk '{print $$0, $$0}' | $target/usr/lib/yp/makedbm - $target/var/yp/$YPDOMAIN/ypservers
I deleted the "$(NOPUSH) ||" in front of make ... ypservers in a
cfengine script.
>     # call make for nis once during first boot
>     cat >$target/etc/rc2.d/S99nis <<-EOF
> #! /bin/sh
> cd /var/yp
> make
> rm -f \$0
> EOF
> chmod a+rx $target/etc/rc2.d/S99nis
I don't like scripts to run on first boot :-) That's why I love FAI so
much. 

Thanks a lot!

Steffen
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