why does my fai-client want to ssh to fai-client and not to the fai-server ?

[kegstand]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> I am netbooting a client I call 'sata-test' . Near the very end of the
>> install , on sata-test,
>> my client tries to SSH to 'sata-test'.  I think it should ssh to
>> pl-dev , to run fai-chboot .   but it doesn't.
>> I would provide a fai log... but sata-test doesn't ssh to pl-dev and
>> leave a log.
>>
>> Any idea why this happens?
>>
>
> In this call to ssh, the $SERVER environment variable is used, which is usually
> set to the value provided by the DHCP reply. Now, either your DHCP server is
> misconfigured, or you set the SERVER variable in one of your scripts to the
> hostname of the client.

is there a way to set this in the tfftp pxelinux.cfg/ files ?  i tried this

append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.18-6-amd64 ip=dhcp  root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live  FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt
FAI_ACTION=install SERVER=faiserver

but it doesn't work.




> Best,
> Michael
>
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