Installation of an Apache httpd server with FAI

[Rudy Gevaert]

Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> Rudy,
> 
>  > Because it's need to be run inside the chroot *(/tmp/target) and
>  > $ROOTCMD is an alias for "chroot /tmp/target".  At least I have always
>  > thought so :)
> 
> I was under the impression that my scripts will run in a chrooted 
> environment anyway. Will check that.
> 
> I just note that at least there seem to be major differences between a 
> "normal" installation and a softupdate. (I am doing softupdates right now.)
> 
> While doing a softupdate, you're not in a chroot environment, so 
> $ROOTCMD and no $ROOTCMD might be the same.

(yes it is)

> 
> Also I found I should use
> 
> $ROOTCMD apache2ctl restart
> 
> at the end of the script, which again is not needed during a "normal" 
> install as the box will reboot anyway after the installation.

I'm not using softupdate, yet (tm).  However some scripts are ready to do:
if [ $FAI_ACTION == "install" ]
then
     foo
fi

bar

> 
> These things might be the counterpart of
> 
> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ch-advanced.html#s-confsoftupdate 

I'll have a look at that.

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