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

[Michael Tautschnig]

> 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
> 

I guess this will be overwritten by DHCP lease processing, so this won't help.
Rather, setting it in one of the class/* scripts may work.

Best,
Michael

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