Use of commands to change settings (was: fai.conf changes)

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:19:44 +0200, Toomas Tamm <tt-fai at kky.ttu.ee> said:

    > I would like to express my opinion against the shift of paradigm of
    > Unix administration, which has been growing in recent years, and now
    > also creeping into FAI. In the "old good days" configuration of a
    > Unix/Linux host was done by modifying files, usually under /etc . This
This is still possible in FAI and will always remain possible. That's
very important for me. Sometimes I like to point people to tools, that
makes their work easier. That's why I proposed fai-chboot in this situation.

IMO fai-chboot is the easiest way to get a correct pxelinux
configuration. It's still possible to edit the pxelinux.cfg/* files
manually. You can also still set FAI_CONFIG_SRC in
$nfsroot/etc/fai/fai.conf, but it's not done my fai-make-nfsroot any
more.

For example, I also edit my pxelinux.cfg files manually (after I've
created them via fai-chboot) for adjusting some parameters. After that I
rename it to .tmpl and then I use fai-chboot -vc to copy the
template to a host specific file. So, I'm using a combination of
manual editing and using the tools that make my live easier.

-- 
regards Thomas