On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Janning Vygen wrote:
+ return 1 if ( $suid != $duid or $sgid != $dgid or $smode != $dmode or
$stime != $dtime );
thinking about (pre/post)inst scripts, comparing the time will lead to
problems... (as destfile may have a different mtime because it has
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:34:53AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Thursday 27 July 2006 11:00, Thomas Lange wrote:
Why? I think even for softupdates, you sometimes like to reconfigure
your bootloader. It's only important that the bootloader configure
code is idempotent :-)
But
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:36:52PM +0200, Frederik Wagner wrote:
Hi *,
I'm trying to set up a fai installation on a Software RAID1. It's
working up to only little annoyance, which I cannot figure out:
I have a mountdisks hook, which makes out of a given disk_config for one
harddisk a
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:24:46AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:07, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
I don't even know about the goal of the FAI_CLASSES file - I'm always
using the -N switch...
Hmm. I use fai softupdate and rely on the fact that the classes are in
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:47:45AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
I'm a bit irritated about fai's use of /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES in
softupdate. Shouldn't this be stored in something
like /var/lib/fai/FAI_CLASSES?
Just a minor issue, but I usually expect to be able to wipe old files
on
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:19:49PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
1440+0 records in
1440+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 0.006242 seconds (236230513 bytes/sec)
Creating an ext2 filesystem on floppy device /root/fai_floppy.img.
Creating the boot floppy with grub.
cp: writing
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:58:27PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
Henning Glawe wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:19:49PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
1440+0 records in
1440+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 0.006242 seconds (236230513 bytes/sec)
Creating an ext2 filesystem on floppy
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:43:12PM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote:
I'm thinking to put /usr/sbin/fai softupdate in the cron of every client.
is there a best practice for doing this.
well, _in principle_ you could do this; however, you should also add an init
script updating the machine, in case it
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:09:43PM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote:
normally during the installation of a new linux-image the /boot/grub/menu.lst
is automatically updated.
only if you have a postinst-hook in /etc/kernel-img.conf
So how come this is not working with nodes which are installed with
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:48:51AM +0100, Juergen Kahnert wrote:
not really. there's nothing that forces the _unpack_ order in a plain
'Depends:'.
are you sure? I can't find an example at my software log for this. Ok, I
didn't checked everything, but for example ash:
[...]
Just
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:56:42PM +0100, Juergen Kahnert wrote:
On Wed, 18. Jan. 2006 at 22:39:54 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
In what way would dependencies help you?
Packages with solved dependencies are installed in alphabetical order.
So modules likes alsa are installed before the
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:52:34PM +0100, Remi Bergsma - MoveNext wrote:
I'm setting up around 20 Debian boxes using FAI. It works really nice so
far. Everything is configured to boot from the network using DHCP and PXE.
The problem is when I configure the root partition to be reiserfs, the
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:05:30PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
I dont see how this is related to #294593 ?!
(Which is about changing the defaut floppy size to 2.88MB... which is good
for
cdroms which - I guess - are used by 95% of the floppy users...)
this is a no-op. if you call it
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:29:25PM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
this is a no-op. if you call it m-f-bootfloppy, it should actually create
a
bootfloppy. and I have never seen any of these 2.88M floppy drives.
cd-booting with el-torrito images uses 2.88M floppies, that's where it
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:02:30PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:27:46 +0100, Henning Glawe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Since the default fai.conf has to be changed by the sysadmin before
calling make-fai-nfsroot, IMHO we can't include it into fai-client
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:53:32PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
What about tagging the fixed-in-svn-bugs pending? Obviously patch is not
applicable, it is used by everyone...
well, 'patch' is applicable if there's some patch available inside the bts...
if we keep the bugfixes only inside
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:38:31PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote:
then...I guess what I really need is to append the contents of my files to
these files. is there a flag for append for fcopy, or is this best done
in a hook? for example, I want to append:
+foo::0:0:::
to the /etc/passwd
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:19:54PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote:
I understand your concerns with the incorrect uid/gids, but these files
will be owned by root.root, which is standard for all systems, so this
shouldn't be a problem for this particular case, right?
well: these files define the
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:33:37AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
I was very supprised when I say the first people branch only for a
single bug. I thought people branches are made mainly for new features
or maybe also for bigger bug fixes. But maybe I'm wrong. Should we
really want to create a
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:36AM +0200, karl shaul wrote:
According to section 6.2 (The default tasks) of the documentation,
The default task and its hooks can be skipped on demand by using
the subroutine skiptask().
Was I supposed to understand at this point where skiptask()
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:57:49AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
I was forced to use nfs over tcp at our chair to allow an acceptable
performance
in a mixed 10/100/1000 ethernet environment. Still, this is a Linux-only
environment and the kernel-option for nfs over tcp in enabled for all
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
I'm trying to use FAI to install a Xen virtual machine.
[...]
dhcp=dhcp
root = /dev/nfs
nfs_server = '10.1.39.84'
nfs_root = '/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot'
[...]
When creating the Xen domain:
...
IP-Config: Incomplete network
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:39:33AM +0200, Christopher Huhn wrote:
I'd like to use FAI to install debian systems into local chroots on the
FAI server (i.e. for Xen/UML virtualization).
While quite familiar with FAI by now, I did not investigate much in this
subject yet.
Has anybody on the
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:04:37PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
gives the following error after install:
fai.log:ERROR: 65280 65280
shell.log:chroot: cannot run command `/sbin/update-grub': No such file or
directory
software.log:ERROR: 65280 65280
if you take a look at software.log, you'll
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:27:51PM -0500, Tuan A. Tran wrote:
1) After installation, there are no users account in clients (nodes).
I want to test lam and mpich but lam does not allow me to boot using
root. I can't add user accounts from node because NFS mount is read
only. I can change this
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:16:01AM -0500, Tuan A. Tran wrote:
I got a weird error as you can see below. I checked and libnet-perl
was installed as well as other packages. However, fai complains about
unmet dependencies. I have not figure out the connection between
well, basically this is apt
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:54:54PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:46:45 +0200, David Hausheer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Any ideas, why the ifconfig statement has no impact when run from
within
a script under /usr/local/share/fai/scripts?
It's just too late
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:19:56PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
Maybe I miss something, but when I rename some files
in /usr/local/share/fai/files, I always have to change the corresponding
script that is responsible for copying this file to it's place.
Similar double-actions are required
Moin,
are there any plans for a FAI meeting at linuxtag yet? or are we just meeting
at the debian booth?
--
c u
henning
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:33:28AM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
/files/etc/fai/
fai.conf/
UBUNTU-FAI-SERVER
FAI-SERVER
make-fai-nfsroot.conf/
UBUNTU-FAI-SERVER
FAI-SERVER
menu-lst/
UBUNTU-FAI-SERVER
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
although re-installation in most cases might be suitable (and ensures that
all computers will get the same software versions as long as the mirror is
frozen), from time to time I have to do upgrades, in particular on
solitary
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:32:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While the ubuntu warty install from a sarge server with FAI 2.6.5 was easier
than expected, I'm now pretty much stuck while trying to install hoary(the
ubuntu devel stream) with FAI 2.6.6 from a sarge server - everything else
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:56:05PM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
I know about the -arch flag to dpkg-scanpackages, but Packages.gz is a
pretty unique file name, isn't it? I cannot imagine a way to have one
for I386, one for X86_64, one for Alpha... It's troublesome enough to
keep several
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:16:07AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.01.31.1110 +0100]:
the line SERVER not defined. Can't change network boot configuration
seems tip that something is wrong, what causes this error? what the
SERVER do?
it
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:23:37PM +0200, Markus Trnqvist wrote:
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:05:26PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote:
1) copying passwd is not a good idea: it contains many dynamic entries
generated by packages (and thus changes quite often)
Well, in this case it's pretty much
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:58:27PM +, Michael Gellman wrote:
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 19:05 +0100, Henning Glawe wrote:
1) copying passwd is not a good idea: it contains many dynamic entries
generated by packages (and thus changes quite often)
Can I ask how you handle adding user
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:58:30PM +0100, BRINER Cedric wrote:
I've made a mistake by asking directly Henning instead a using the
mailing list.
most important question: does it work for you now ? and if yes: where lurked
the problem ?
--
c u
henning
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:24:13PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Cyril Bouthors [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.14.1214 +0100]:
Is there a way to avoid changing the DHCP configuration to get
a terminal with FAI?
Either DHCP or the boot medium. I do not know of another way.
there is
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:40:14AM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
See above. I'm maintaining a FAI setup tree for production use and won't
take the risk to break something.
If you use cvs: you can use another tag for your experiments (using the
FAI_CVSTAG variable).
--
c u
henning
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 02:50:03PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Henning Glawe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.11.1158 +0100]:
As alternatives to VMWare I'd rather take a look at qemu than at
bochs (speed benefits).
Check out xen too!
Looks good, but there seems to be at least one
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:11:47PM +0300, Cyril Bouthors wrote:
Do you know a way to test a FAI installation locally, on the same
computer without loosing data?
Do you have any idea how this could be accomplished?
Has anyone ever set up bochs or something similar to do such thing?
I use
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:24:22AM -0800, Paul English wrote:
what do the server's logfiles tell ? especially if you switch the tftpd into
verbose mode (append -v to the inetd.conf line to increase verbosity).
Without -v previously, daemon.log reported:
Dec 6 11:19:04 cerberos
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:34:53PM +0100, Joerg Decker wrote:
It actually worked as descibed in the README (the new image is smaller
than the others). Though the KERNELPACKAGE variable has to be set in
make-fai-nfsroot.conf
and not in /etc/fai.conf.
I don't see what difference that would
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Harald Gröne wrote:
In the FAI user guide it says, that 8MB on the clients is enough for FAI
installation. I just started a FAI bootdisk on an 486, but It crashes during
kernel boot. Do I have to build a custom kernel to get it work?
Maybe try the
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:35:29PM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote:
What happens to questions that need answering, though, such as whether
to update a conf file and such?
update a conffile is handled normally by dpkg, not apt. (There now seem to
be a few packages (tetex being one of them)
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:01:53PM +0100, Hiamal H. Llanos wrote:
I'm sure someone asked this question already before me but I ask it again:
Is it possible to supply fai for different arch at the same time? T.ex:
powerpc and i386.
Some tips?
You have to create the nfsroot on the target
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:52:34AM +0100, Emmanuel.Leguy wrote:
kernelversion=2.6.8 # for the packages kernel-doc and kernel-source
[...]
I've got this error:
INIT: version 2.86 booting
INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation at 0x804a33c (code)! sleeping for 30
seconds.
and the keyboad
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 12:14:59PM +0200, Kovacs Baldvin wrote:
fai-start-stop-daemon should be aware also of the short options,
because there are init scripts (e.g. /etc/init.d/dictd) that do use
you saved my day ;) I just was debugging why dictd install fails on sarge and
then I remembered
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:53:05PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
I'm trying to set up fai. I'm using debian stable and would like to
set up other stable systems with fai.
[...]
E: Couldn't find package module-init-tools
What could the problem be?
what FAI version are you using ?
it sounds
Moin,
I just put a tarball of my current FAI3 tree onto my website
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/
I'm going on vacation for 1 week now, so I won't be that
quick when it comes to answering questions via Mail at the moment ;)
--
c u
henning
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:01:02PM +0800, tigger wrote:
1. Make FAI install a FAI installer ( recursion is your friend ).
2. Have the machines update configs AFTER install.
Works since three years (with a few glitches mostly related to kernel updates)
with a forked version of FAI I am working
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:47:48PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
The version (forked around 2.3; some things are backported from FAI HEAD,
some others got merged into FAI) currently used in my faculty can be found
at
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/
Is there any documentation
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:23:38PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
- start the update-process from one single server, not on the client
Update has to be done on the client: how else can it access the local
filesystem ? In my setup, the server starts the update processes on the
clients via the
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:08:52PM +0200, Bernd Broermann wrote:
how can I skip the tasks extrbase ... , so that I can install another OS ?
create a script hooks/extrbase.$SOMECLASS containing
# !/bin/bash
touch $LOGDIR/skip.extrbase
--
c u
henning
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:36:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just started using FAI and need to know if there's a way to handle
other architectures, too.
I have a Debian sparc machine that should be the install server. All
other machines are i386. I realized that it doesn't work to
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:43:04AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
You mean your patches for fai
(http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/pfai/) ? I would be very happy
to learn more about those, but I'm to lazy to dig into it without
documentation :(
some of the PFAI is already merged in fai and
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:02:00PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
- neue Features vorstellen oder planen und teilweise implementieren,
TESTEN! (LVM, raid, fcopy und hooks fuer make-fai-nfsroot, fcopy
Erweiterung)
I hope to get my fai systemupdate stuff presentable for this meeting
(works for 2
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:39:50PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
While looking how to enable FAI to use subversion as a revision control
backend, I got somewhat confused by following command sequence from the
get_fai_cvs() function:
export FAI_CONFIG_AREA=$FAI
export
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:01:30PM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
installation. I sort of understand the installation part (well, I'm
working on it), but I don't understand the update part, unless update
means reinstall with an updated FAI configuration. It seems that when
updating you'd fall
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:17:13PM +0200, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote:
Hello,
On Friday 10 October 2003 15:53, Thomas Lange wrote:
- added chapter to the fai guide how to reveive the configuration
space using CVS
Nice
It is correct that I must rename the local configuration
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:20:18AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
Naturally, these changes get hosed if I have to rebuild the NFS root for
any reason. It would be nice if such customisations could be make
programmatically so they're reproducible easily.
the quickest solution would be to build
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:44:10AM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
That's your problem then - kernel packages built with make-kpkg require
interaction when setting up lilo. I ended up building custom kernels
like any other package with a customised debian/rules built from dh_make
and then building
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:24:23AM -0700, Dale Harris wrote:
Is it possible to use FAI without dhcp? Basically have a cluster, but I
don't presently control the network, the addresses are provided by dhcp,
but I don't have any control over that server and the net admins are
pretty
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:38:39AM -0800, Bruce Edge wrote:
That covers the issue of how to get the right preferences file onto the
target, but what about which one to use during the package_install
phase.
implemeted this for PFAI:
instead of directly copying apt configuration files, use fcopy
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:44:27AM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
already met so it'll only fetch the packages you specify :-( I came
across a tool to list all recursive dependencies last year but I can't
find it now, it was almost useful.
maybe apt-rdepends ?
--
c u
henning
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:28:46PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
- should we switch the installkernel to devfs ? What parts are
affected ? Can both be used at the same time ?
we use it here that way... maybe just write a hint in the manual that
the user should add devfsd to nfsroot if they want
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:27:13PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
The patch's author writes: just apply the attached patch (part of
PFAI), and those problems will be non-existant... if you make use of
hooks and you call FAI-subroutines within them, this patch will
certainly lead to problems...
Moin,
now I setup a very simple Homepage for PFAI at
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/pfai . So now it should be easier
to access it.
There is also a new PFAI tarball online, mainly containing bugfixes:
- the Makefile actually works for other people than me ;)
- huge bugfixes in system
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:37:22PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
Can FAI be used to update an existing system that was initially setup
with FAI, i.e. similar to systemimager which uses a golden client and
rsync
I made up a few patches for FAI, called them PFAI and put them on
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:09:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
directory structure looks much like this
/fai/files/var/lib/qmail/alias/.qmail-root/MAIL_SERVER
/fai/files/var/lib/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster/MAIL_SERVER
/fai/files/var/lib/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon/MAIL_SERVER
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:06:10PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
It should be possible to make a bootable CD-ROM containing the nfsroot
and the configuration space. The mirror can be accessed via ftp or
configuration space would maybe better on something rewritable, e.g. on
a floppy or a CVS
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:16:14PM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote:
Also I see a recurring error xargs
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:35:04AM -0700, Bruce Edge wrote:
How about making --force-confnew the default for FAI installs?
This prevents package installs from asking questions regarding configuration file
updates.
I would better suggest --force-confdef; confnew overwrite locally
modified
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:21:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Errr, because (as I said)
# Can't use the $FAI/files approach because those are
# processed too late for our purposes.
NOT...
thomas has a TODO-mark in subroutines*, for using fcopy for apt
configuration _just after_
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote:
the system. just put the files into the $CONFIG/files hierarchy, using
class FAI-NFSROOT.
PFAI what is it? Can you send me a link?
a _P_atched FAI... some patches pending for inclusion in fai...
mainly into the direction
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