Re: z/VM CMS TFTP client available...

2008-07-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
dave wrote: Hi, gang. In order to support cobbler in the z/VM (IBM mainframe environment), there is now a TFTP client application available for CMS. Just FYI.. DJ ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org

Re: Removing the 'text' default kernel option

2008-07-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote: Hi Charles Well, if this is just for a profile, you can edit it and set kernel options (--kopts) cobbler profile edit --name=foo --kopts=!text If that's for all systems, just edit /etc/cobbler/settings and remove the text option. I usually set mine

Re: Can i kickstart a jumpstart?

2008-07-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
to be created, however before I started digging in it I just wanted to know if you knew of any reason it would not work? Regards Jonas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL

Genome uses Cobbler

2008-07-23 Thread Michael DeHaan
This is a project some of our IT folks have built to manage developer lifecycle environments using git, cobbler, puppet, and func. http://genome.et.redhat.com/docs/genome/ While I do not expect the workflows used by this application apply directly to the way most people here use Cobbler, it

Re: Booting DOS images with memdisk?

2008-07-24 Thread Michael DeHaan
Chris O'Regan wrote: We have some systems that can only be updated by floppy disk. It is possible to boot these images via PXE using memdisk and this works quite well. I would like to add these images to Cobbler so that we have one mechanism for maintaining PXE. Any pointers? Thanks,

Re: Working with variables

2008-07-24 Thread Michael DeHaan
Chris O'Regan wrote: To test my Cobbler setup, I copied a (pre-Cobbler) kickstart configuration file into the kickstarts directory and set my system to use it. That worked great. Now I am working on a default kickstart file that will use templates to build a custom configuration

Re: [PATCH] Re: cobbler 1.0.2-1: cobbler validateks finding errors, but exiting w/ success

2008-07-24 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: Charles Duffy wrote: Running with a modern pykickstart (as opposed to the one included in RHEL5) does much better; however, errors still don't appear to be passed out to the shell: checking url: http://169.254.0.1/cblr/svc/op/ks

So what the heck does /etc/cobbler/modules.conf do?

2008-07-25 Thread Michael DeHaan
In 1.0, we finally added nice comments explaining what everything in /etc/cobbler/settings did. For 1.1(devel)/1.2, I've finally done the same for /etc/cobbler/modules.conf. Even if you aren't tracking the devel branch, this should still be interesting as the config file settings are exactly

Re: Odd dependencies appearing when using $yum_repo_stanza

2008-07-25 Thread Michael DeHaan
Chris O'Regan wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but as far as I remembered, when using CentOS 5.x with a repo with all updates (mantained with cobbler reposync) I was able to kickstart to latest version, but some *weird* problems appeared, for example, if I was not specifying libstdc++, after

Assigning default profiles to PXE based on subnets

2008-07-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
Cobbler has been able to do this for a long time: cobbler system add --name=default --profile=p1 This makes every system that does not have an explicit IP or MAC based assignment PXE to profile p1. However, what happens if you want to do this on a subnet by subnet basis? PXE lets you do

Re: Snippet with generalized functions

2008-07-29 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dan G wrote: OK, hotmail sucks! Please see below. hopefully this time with proper line breaks. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Subject: Snippet with generalized functions Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:26:37 -0500 Attached is a

Re: Snippet with generalized functions

2008-07-30 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dan G wrote: Yeah, I'll work on the patches tonight. I know Cheetah has some weird inheritance stuff (again, python), so I'll look at that as a way to get the builtin functions there, too. I'll also get the advanced SNIPPET thing working tonight as well. Just to be certain on its

More details on system imaging -- livecd based proposal

2008-07-30 Thread Michael DeHaan
I've been talking with Andrew Brown from NCSU, and we have some ideas on how to implement a cobbler imaging solution utilizing livecd's and partimage. He's going to be taking a crack at implementing this for a future cobbler release. I've included basic details here so others could see

Re: AW: action_reposync.py / patch / cobbler reposync

2008-07-30 Thread Michael DeHaan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thanks for the patch, but I am not able to install it... If I run it, it complains patching file action_reposync.py patch: malformed patch at line 4: args = { name : repo.name, rest : rest } I also tried to manually add the lines, but then python

Re: serializer_shelve going away, if you are using it, read

2008-08-04 Thread Michael DeHaan
Sean E. Millichamp wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 18:09 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: serializer_catalog seems quite capable of 1000+ installs with no sweat, and that still does not prohibit work on SQL based options for those that find those interesting. Someone I know was playing

Idea for improved integration with Puppet, comments?

2008-08-05 Thread Michael DeHaan
Occasionally the question comes up on what puppet/cfengine/other integration looks like for Cobbler. So far that answer (for Puppet, anyway) has been to use external_nodes, as below, but I think we can do better than this. Here's the Wiki page on that:

Re: Idea for improved integration with Puppet, comments?

2008-08-05 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: Occasionally the question comes up on what puppet/cfengine/other integration looks like for Cobbler. So far that answer (for Puppet, anyway) has been to use external_nodes, as below, but I think we can do better than this. Here's the Wiki page on that: https

Re: Idea for improved integration with Puppet, comments?

2008-08-05 Thread Michael DeHaan
Chris O'Regan wrote: Does cfengine have a similar concept for mapping systems locally to the configuration rules they should access? Indirectly. I have not played with this feature yet, but I believe that cfengine methods would do the trick. This could call a python script that

Re: cobbler

2008-08-05 Thread Michael DeHaan
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi I have gone through the cobbler software. is it possible to install it on Ubuntu Linux since our setup is based on Ubuntu linux. Can i make a provisioning server based on Ubuntu Thanks and Regards Kaushal

Re: Idea for improved integration with Puppet, comments?

2008-08-05 Thread Michael DeHaan
Brenton Leanhardt wrote: +++ Michael DeHaan [05/08/08 08:04 -0400]: Occasionally the question comes up on what puppet/cfengine/other integration looks like for Cobbler. So far that answer (for Puppet, anyway) has been to use external_nodes, as below, but I think we can do better than

Re: cobbersysreport utility

2008-08-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
Anderson Silva wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've made the following changes to cobblersysreport: 1. dropped config file 2. added support to pass fields via command line paramenter 3. added support to multiple interfaces (although display may be a bit quirky still).

Updated Wiki article about Image Support

2008-08-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
This rolls up all the image work being done so far and what is doable, which use cobbler distro add and which use cobbler image, and how these things work: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/AllAboutImages I'm sure this will get refined over time so this should be considered experimental

Re: Cobbler image objects now generically PXEable on metal / systems can inherit from images

2008-08-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: +++ Rainer Duffner [06/08/08 15:04 +0200]: Michael DeHaan schrieb: So, please help test this out, and if everything is good we'll see about updating the Wiki to show how to use this with other tools, such as the firmware update images that are already out

Re: cobbersysreport utility

2008-08-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
Anderson Silva wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've written a python utility that interacts with the cobbler API, to allow a person to select what fields they want reported formatted for either: media wiki, doku, trac or plain text... here is an example: Trac output:

Re: Do the per-profile and per-system snippets override the default snippet?

2008-08-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
Rainer Duffner wrote: Hi, the per-profile and per-system snippet stuff is cool - but it seems the custom snippet overrides the default one. While I can see that this is something people may also want, it's not what I need. The per-profile or per-system snippets I want are in 99% of the

Re: Do the per-profile and per-system snippets override the default snippet?

2008-08-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
Rainer Duffner wrote: Michael DeHaan schrieb: Rainer Duffner wrote: Hi, the per-profile and per-system snippet stuff is cool - but it seems the custom snippet overrides the default one. While I can see that this is something people may also want, it's not what I need

Re: More details on system imaging -- livecd based proposal

2008-08-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
with dd, since partimage isn't in the repos and I'll have to build it myself. Yep, we're going to want to get partimage packaged for Fedora. -Andrew On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Brown wrote: So I've started

Re: cobblersysreport utility

2008-08-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
Anderson Silva wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you don't want to add it after all, don't add it. I'm not sure I understand the change of heart, but I am not going to argue with someone about adding a feature they don't want to add. I am not trying to

Re: cobblersysreport utility

2008-08-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: Anderson Silva wrote: Grep doesn't make sense when wanting to report table formatted output like what you were opposing. s/opposing/suggesting/ ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https

Re: can a snippet call a snippet?

2008-08-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Joseph Boyer Jr. wrote: For instance... I want on kick start profile but to have my post install different for each profile. Thus I want to have the kick start template nave the entry Snippet:postinstall And then have postinstall do a conditional statement. If myproile = fc9

Re: New PXE live CD instructions

2008-08-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: I've streamlined my thoughts around images some more. Erase what I said previously, this is far simpler and splits the info into two seperate Wiki pages to reduce confusion: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler

Re: [PATCH] Added support for images to the Ruby bindings.

2008-08-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: Also fixed some of the decoding for interfaces returned for systems. But I'm not happy with that binding still. Signed-off-by: Darryl L. Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- contrib/ruby/examples/create_system.rb|6 ++- contrib/ruby/examples/has_image.rb

Re: [PATCH] Support for VMware Workstation to koan

2008-08-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Rob Crittenden wrote: Attached is a patch to add support for VMware Workstation to koan. This builds on work done by Lee Faust last March and is mostly housekeeping and other cleanups. I've created a new virtualization type to distinguish it from VMware Server, vmwarew. I'm not sure if I

Re: [PATCH] Support for VMware Workstation to koan

2008-08-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Rob Crittenden wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: I've applied the koan patch (thanks very much for taking the time to do this). The Cobbler patch changes the random mac in a way that it's specific to VMware, but removes the Xen support. Ideally for that we need to key off the virt-type

[ANNOUNCE] Cobbler and koan 1.1.0-2, test release

2008-08-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Hello everyone. Cobbler and Koan 1.1 are ready for testing. The plan is to make this available for a week or two to work out any issues with the 1.1 release prior to releasing it as 1.2 (stable).During this time there may be a few minor features and bugfixes applied, though this release

Re: [BUG] 1.1.0-2 cobbler check fails because bootloaders is missing from /etc/cobbler/settings

2008-08-11 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dave Hatton wrote: Hi Michael Whilst testing 1.1.0-2 I find cobbler check fails (falls over in a messy trace) because bootloaders is missing from /etc/cobbler/settings I fixed this by adding the lines back in - but is this right? Dave Hatton

Re: [BUG] 1.1.0-2 cobbler check fails because bootloaders is missing from /etc/cobbler/settings

2008-08-12 Thread Michael DeHaan
Adam Huffman wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: Dave Hatton wrote: Hi Michael Whilst testing 1.1.0-2 I find cobbler check fails (falls over in a messy trace) because bootloaders is missing from /etc/cobbler/settings I fixed this by adding the lines back in - but is this right

Re: Cobbler image objects now generically PXEable on metal / systems can inherit from images

2008-08-12 Thread Michael DeHaan
should now be resolved on the devel branch. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: Steven W. Carter wrote: An interesting idea for additional

Re: [New Feature] cobbler system getks

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
, system) ~ Dan That works too :) It doesn't verify that the whole mod_python/Apache stack parts are working though, which is why I kind of like the urlgrabber approach. --Michael Michael DeHaan wrote: Ben Riggs wrote: In the spirit of KISS and versatility, I think

Re: [New Feature] cobbler system getks

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: Dan Guernsey wrote: Amidst all my development with the kickstart features, I made a script that does this directly with the cobbler API, perhaps this can be included instead of using any URL stuff. #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import cobbler.api print

Things to help test in 1.1.X if you are interested.

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
For those wanting to help test out the 1.1.X testing release I posted about recently: http://people.fedoraproject.org/~mdehaan/files/test_releases/ A few good things to test if you have an interest in them might be: -- VMware workstation (and regular VMware Server) if you have it -- General

Other virtualization support for koan?

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
While I'm not sure it makes sense, I figured I would ask. Is anyone interested in seeing koan assist with other types of virtualized installs? lguest? virtual box? others? I won't do it if no one is interested, but keeping koan comprehensive seems to be goodness. We are already supporting

FYI: license headers updated to include GPLv2 license headers

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Cobbler and koan have always been GPL v2+. This hasn't changed, but I have updated the python source files in git to all have the appropriate headers. If reading just the headers, and not the file named COPYING, it might have given the impression they were GPL v1. Just wanted to post that in

Re: [PATCH] The auth_token is now cached as Cobbler::Base@@auth_token.

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: Signed-off-by: Darryl L. Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- contrib/ruby/TODO |2 + contrib/ruby/examples/list_systems.rb |2 +- contrib/ruby/lib/cobbler/base.rb | 71 +

Re: [New Feature] cobbler system getks

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dave Hatton wrote: Heres a new version. It now works with cobbler system and cobbler profile and uses Dans suggestion of api.BootAPI.generate_kickstart() Michael, thanks for your help and patience. Dave Hatton

Looking for something to do with Cobbler?

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
If you're interested in contributing to Cobbler, I've gone through the RFE list and assigned components, so you can easily sort the TODO list by the things you might be interested in. There are a lot of good ideas here: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/report/1?sort=componentasc=1 Features

Re: The auth_token is now cached as Cobbler::Base@@auth_token.

2008-08-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: +++ Michael DeHaan [13/08/08 15:31 -0400]: You may want to add calling to check_token() (or is it token_check?) prior to token usage, or at least test what happens when the token expires. I'm not sure if the code is doing that or not, but I thought I would point

Reminder: you must be subscribed to the list to post

2008-08-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
I'm not approving off-list posting each time I get one, so if you are not seeing your emails go through, please sign up for the mailing list (digest mode is ok) for the address you are posting from. --Michael ___ cobbler mailing list

Re: Reminder: you must be subscribed to the list to post

2008-08-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: +++ Michael DeHaan [14/08/08 09:30 -0400]: I'm not approving off-list posting each time I get one, so if you are not seeing your emails go through, please sign up for the mailing list (digest mode is ok) for the address you are posting from. Is the list configured

Second test email (ignore)

2008-08-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
... ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler

Test to see if mail-server is working, please disregard

2008-08-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
Got a report that mail didn't seem to be hitting the list, this is a test. --Michael ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler

Re: Second test email (ignore)

2008-08-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: ... ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler For those who were curious, fedora was having a few server problems affecting outgoing delivery. They should

Re: [PATCH] New option for passing kernel parameters for bootloader

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
Lassi Pölönen wrote: Since current kernel options (kopts) in cobbler are only for installer's kernel and are not propagating to installed system, a new option for passing kernel parameters for installed kernel is needed for the purpose. Here's a patch that adds kernel_option_post variable

Re: Cobbler image objects now generically PXEable on metal / systems can inherit from images

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
good for starters, though you don't really need to learn much more outside the git-format-patch workflow at first. On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven W. Carter wrote: livecd-iso-to-pxe does some sort of check

Re: Throttling

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
Johnston, Christopher (GAE) wrote: Does cobbler have the ability to throttle the number of servers being built at a single time? I know I can put throttling into yum and into apache to prevent X number of data to be transferred, but curious if there has been some thought on doing this for

Koan now can install SuSE VMs

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
I've now applied this: https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2008-August/000453.html This will allow for installing SuSE VMs on Fedora/RHEL for migration purposes or just general usage. --Michael ___ cobbler mailing list

Patch for --kopts-post feature applied

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
I've recently applied this with a few tweaks: https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2008-August/000514.html This allows for the following: cobbler distro edit --name=foo --kopts-post=noapic asdf=jkl In the above example all distros will have the default kernel options on the installed OS

Re: Patch for --kopts-post feature applied

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: I've recently applied this with a few tweaks: https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2008-August/000514.html This allows for the following: cobbler distro edit --name=foo --kopts-post=noapic asdf=jkl In the above example all distros will have the default kernel

Re: cobbler import destroys profile kickstart settings

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dustin Black wrote: I've imported a slew of operating system shares into cobbler as so: # cobbler import --mirror=/install_images/mnt --name=CBLR --available-as=http://10.0.0.1/install_images/mnt I've then created some custom profiles using the imported distros and pointing to a specific

Re: cobbler import destroys profile kickstart settings

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dustin Black wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: Dustin Black wrote: I've imported a slew of operating system shares into cobbler as so: # cobbler import --mirror=/install_images/mnt --name=CBLR --available-as=http://10.0.0.1/install_images/mnt I've then created some custom profiles

[ANNOUNCE] Cobbler and Koan 1.1.1-1, test2 release for 1.2

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
SystemExits - (BUGF) --help now works more intuitively on odd command line usage - (BUGF) use pxesystem for systems, not pxeprofile - (FEAT) make Cheetah formatting errors contain help text for users - (FEAT) --kopts-post can configure post-install kernel options Koan changelog: - Tue Aug 19 2008 Michael

Re: More details on system imaging -- livecd based proposal

2008-08-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
was assigned /dev/sdb. It's not like this in a non-live environment. Anyone have any ideas? -Andrew On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Brown wrote: I'm assuming you are building

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cobbler and Koan 1.1.1-1, test2 release for 1.2

2008-08-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dave Hatton wrote: Hi Michael, Could be somethig strange with me - but 1.1.1 gives me lots of problems. eg - cut - [EMAIL PROTECTED] cobbler]# cobbler system getks --name=starg43 Traceback

Re: Duplicate repo entries causing anaconda to fail

2008-08-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dave Hatton wrote: So having had problems with 1.1.1 I decided to rebuild my cobbler environment to 1.1.0-2 Once I'd finished I attempted to kickstart a machine and got an error that seems to have been around a while?

Re: Duplicate repo entries causing anaconda to fail

2008-08-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
Matthew Barr wrote: Drat- that's something I got a bunch of. I haven't really figured out how to deal with it. We had an odd use case, and then 5.2 came out, so I ended up using that. I can pull more details if you need it, but that error message: File

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cobbler and Koan 1.1.1-1, test2 release for 1.2

2008-08-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: Dave Hatton wrote: Hi Michael, Could be somethig strange with me - but 1.1.1 gives me lots of problems. eg - cut - [EMAIL PROTECTED] cobbler]# cobbler system

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cobbler and Koan 1.1.1-1, test2 release for 1.2

2008-08-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: Dave Hatton wrote: Hi Michael, Could be somethig strange with me - but 1.1.1 gives me lots of problems. eg - cut - [EMAIL

Re: More details on system imaging -- livecd based proposal

2008-08-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
, Andrew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Brown wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: More details on system imaging -- livecd based proposal

2008-08-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
grub.conf once installed.Apologies for the confusion there. --Michael On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Andrew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew

Cobbler 1.3/1.4 -- ACLs and a simpler CobblerWeb

2008-08-25 Thread Michael DeHaan
One of the features I want to address for the next major version of cobbler is this: I want to present a simple control panel that allows users who own systems (when using the ownership module) to access to only what they control. This means rather than an admin to manipulate Cobbler, we can

Re: [PATCH] initial patch for cobbler report

2008-08-25 Thread Michael DeHaan
Anderson Silva wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is my first patch, and I had limited resources for testing. Consider this a 'working in progress' Feel free to submit feedback. One thing I still would like to do is: cobbler report --what=system --list-all-fields

Re: Changes for --breed, --os-version for 1.2

2008-08-26 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: Dave Hatton wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: As Dave Hatton's patch alluded to, there are going to be some new fields coming in for 1.2, that are strictly optional. The reason for this is we need them to properly install some older virtual machines for both

Better security documentation now on the Wiki

2008-08-27 Thread Michael DeHaan
== Topic 1 I've organized the Wiki a bit so it's easier to understand the security section. Particularly each security related option is detailed in /etc/cobbler/modules.conf. Visit https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/UserDocs and search for Security. If you have wondered more about

Re: More details on system imaging -- livecd based proposal

2008-08-27 Thread Michael DeHaan
Andrew Brown wrote: Things have been going slow for me since I started classes, so sorry for the sparse updates. I never did figure out why restoring the mbr and partitions separately produced an unbootable system, and it's something I'll need to eventually solve. However, for now I've

Re: More details on system imaging -- livecd based proposal

2008-08-27 Thread Michael DeHaan
Andrew Brown wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's ok, we're chasing lots of random features at the same time, so no rush on this one. Ultimately we have a pretty good solution now for supporting

Re: [PATCH] - importing debian based distros

2008-08-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
Javier Palacios wrote: Hi, I've started to work in order to allow debian provisioning with cobbler. I send attached two patches. The first on is actually not strictly related to debian, and it's a reorganization of the archs management, to simplify it and ease smooth addition of other

More ACL development thoughts, comments?

2008-08-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
I've updated this to reflect current plans https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/AclFeature A sample version of the ACL config as documented above is: (Again, this is a list of fields/methods to deny access to) --- admin: {} # no denials admins: {} jradmin: copy_distro: * copy_image:

Re: More ACL development thoughts, comments?

2008-08-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
Michael DeHaan wrote: I've updated this to reflect current plans https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/AclFeature A sample version of the ACL config as documented above is: (Again, this is a list of fields/methods to deny access to) --- admin: {} # no denials admins: {} jradmin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cobbler and Koan 1.2

2008-08-30 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dave Hatton wrote: This patch fixes the cobbler 1.2 git master branch and (I beleive) the src rpm. Cheers Dave Hatton ___ cobbler mailing list

Re: - importing debian based distros

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
Javier Palacios wrote: Should I understand that x86 is the canonical name for i386? It's the name we are going to use to describe 32 bit systems to avoid the baggage of debating whether i386 referers to i386 compatible instructions or can include i686, which is pretty much

Re: custom menu_label

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
Axel Thimm wrote: Hi, ist it possible to pass a custom, human eyes friendly menu_label to pxeprofiles? Currently it just takes the profile name which is bound to certain restrictions. E.g. I'd like to call a profile in the PXE menu Install Fedora 9 32 bits or Rescue system from Fedora

Re: [PATCH] (Multiple) Moved and Documented builtins

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dan Guernsey wrote: I am unable to test these at this time (I get an error from api.py when it encounters: import acls It's not checked in presently, as indicated a while back on the list. I'll have this resolved after I get 1.2.0-2 out What package/file does this come from?)

[ANNOUNCE] Cobbler 1.2.1-1 (fix for 1.2.0-1)

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
Cobbler 1.2.1-1 fixes merge issues present in 1.2.0-1. This has been pushed out to all of the builders and is now available at http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/download The problem was that make test in Cobbler does not require installation, so I ran the tests Friday on the /pre-merge/ version

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cobbler 1.2.1-1 (fix for 1.2.0-1)

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
, 2008-09-02 at 11:06 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: Cobbler 1.2.1-1 fixes merge issues present in 1.2.0-1. This has been pushed out to all of the builders and is now available at http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/download The problem was that make test in Cobbler does not require

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cobbler 1.2.1-1 (fix for 1.2.0-1)

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23256: line 35: /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths: No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23256 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23256 (%install) make: *** [rpms] Error 1 Thanks! -- j

Re: FIX - Re: [PATCH] initial patch for cobbler report

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
Anderson Silva wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I forgot to add the cli_report.py to the patch yesterday, here is an updated version. My bad. AS Anderson Silva wrote: This is my first patch, and I had limited resources for testing. Consider this a 'working in

Re: NIC for Installation and their order

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Like many others, we had some problems with the order of the network cards during and after the installation. We found a way to workaround that problem, i'll try to explain how we did that: [...] We hope

Re: [PATCH] (Multiple) Moved and Documented builtins

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
Dan Guernsey wrote: I am unable to test these at this time (I get an error from api.py when it encounters: import acls What package/file does this come from?) Meanwhile, here are two patches. The first moves the builtins into cheetah_macros and provides documentation. The second adds

Fix option parsing in 1.2.1

2008-09-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
There's a minor problem with option parsing in 1.2.1, as pointed out on IRC just now. cobbler distro edit --name=foo --parameter=value # works cobbler distro edit --name foo --parameter value # does not work and prints usage This seems to fix things and is already applied to both branches:

Re: - importing debian based distros

2008-09-03 Thread Michael DeHaan
Javier Palacios wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned earlier, setting the breed makes sure the kernel arguments are correct automatically.It needs to do this and is already supported. Fix this and I'll see about applying

Re: Can't disable netboot

2008-09-03 Thread Michael DeHaan
Rainer Duffner wrote: Hi, just updated to the latest cobbler 1.2.1-1 on RHEL5. Now, all my systems' MAC-addresses show up in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg and using --netboot-enabled=0 or de-selecting the checkbox in the webinterface is futile. How can that happen? Regards, Rainer

Re: Can't disable netboot

2008-09-03 Thread Michael DeHaan
Rainer Duffner wrote: Michael DeHaan schrieb: Rainer Duffner wrote: Michael DeHaan schrieb: Rainer Duffner wrote: Hi, just updated to the latest cobbler 1.2.1-1 on RHEL5. Now, all my systems' MAC-addresses show up in /tftpboot

Re: cobbler sync dies trying to write /etc/dhcpd.conf

2008-09-03 Thread Michael DeHaan
Harry Hoffman wrote: Hi, Just installed a new cobbler-1.2.1 I have a dhcp.template and I run the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cobbler]# cobbler sync bootloaders File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py, line 77, in main rc = BootCLI().run(sys.argv) File

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cobbler 1.2.2

2008-09-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
Harry Hoffman wrote: Hmm, not quite there... running cobbler sync after the upgrade (and moving the new settings file into place): ... snip ... Looks like you have no system records and/or it's a Python version thing. Very simple fix incoming... --Michael

Re: Cobbler 1.3 rpm

2008-09-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Anderson Silva wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael DeHaan wrote: Anderson Silva wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: Harry Hoffman wrote: Doh! [EMAIL PROTECTED] repo_mirror]# cobbler

Adding arch to image subcommands

2008-09-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
This was missing in the image support, though as I suspect it is not widely needed yet, we'll hold this until the next release of either branch, whichever comes first, and will merge with devel: If you are playing with cobbler image add, here's --arch being added to the CLI:

Fix to 1.2.X for dnsmasq DHCP management feature

2008-09-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Apply this if you are using dnsmasq for cobbler's DHCP and have manage_dhcp enabled and experience problems running cobbler sync due to a missing setting in your /etc/cobbler/settings (as in, you have a clean install rather than having upgraded from 1.0.X):

Re: Thinking about the Cobbler Web App / Rails? / Who uses CobblerWeb on EL 4?

2008-09-08 Thread Michael DeHaan
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Michael DeHaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that Daryl Pierce has written rubygem-cobbler* for making Cobbler's XMLRPC API even easier to use for webapps, and I have already mentioned WebUI improvements are going to be a major

Re: pxe menu timeout

2008-09-10 Thread Michael DeHaan
Marcelo Giles wrote: Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote: Ola Marcelo On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Marcelo Giles wrote: Hello, I'm running into a problem with cobbler on RHEL 5.2. and need help. I had my cobbler settings working with 3 distros and 3 profiles. Everything worked fine, PXE boot

Re: More on Reports

2008-09-10 Thread Michael DeHaan
Anderson Silva wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've changed commands.py so cobbler {system,repo,profile,etc} report will work using action_report.py. I've also cleared up some of the code from the previous patches. Here is the current functionality available: [EMAIL

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