Re: more cfagent during kickstart woes

[Lars Damerow]

Hi Erik,

We used to run cfengine after the first reboot, but the changes it made
required another reboot. For a small number of machines that's not a problem,
but I have over 2000 machines to kickstart--that reboot time really adds up. ;)

cfengine always runs like a champ outside of kickstart; I wonder what
difference between a kickstart boot and a regular boot gives it such trouble.

thanks,
lars

>From Erik Dykema <ed2019@columbia.edu>, Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:25:27PM -0400:
> Hi-
>       Not sure if this is helpful with the problem or just a workaround / 
> avoidance, but is there a hard req. to run cfagent *during* the kickstart?
>       I administer some RHEL 3 machines here, and in my kickstart, I just 
> install a cfengine RPM (home grown), put the appropriate init files into 
> place, and copy over a default update.conf , which says where to get the 
> real update.conf and other conf files.  So, cfagent doesn't actually run 
> until after the reboot.  This works good for us here.
> 
> erik

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