Re: ssh - no added security?

2003-03-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:40:04 EST Mark Hedges said: There would need to be away to encrypt the NFS mount. Is this possible? You can tunnel NFS over ssh if you want to, but it might be rather slow, I don't know, I've never tried it. You'd have to force rpc.mountd on the server

Re: question on Debian::Fai

2002-12-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:20:18 +0100 Mate Kosor said: Where can I find documentation on Debian::Fai? At the website or in the source, or in /usr/share/doc/fai if you've installed it using apt-get. -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239

fai dhcp3

2002-09-23 Thread pll
Hi all, This is probably more a question for the dhcp list, but I'm not on that one :) I noticed that certain options for FAI get passed in from the dchp server which are custom vendor options. Such as: option fai-location code 170 = text; option fai-action code 171 =

Re: NIS configuration

2002-09-19 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:19:06 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yah, it's too bad the NIS gets defined if YPDOMAIN is defined. I'm curious, why would this be bad? If you have YPDOMAIN defined, then wouldn't you *want* NIS? If you don't want NIS, then don't define YPDOMAIN.

Re: NIS configuration

2002-09-19 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:02:29 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I could lose the global definition, but then I'd be obliged to define nis-domain on a per-client basis, right? I'd rather that FAI didn't helpfully make incorrect assumptions, and that when I say NONIS, I really do

Re: NIS configuration

2002-09-19 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:32:13 EDT AUSTIN MURPHY said: Why not just modify S24nis.sh to set $YPDOMAIN= if NONIS is defined? You could do that to, but you need to somehow get NONIS defined. If you do this in the dhcpd.conf file by setting 'option nis-domain' to an empty string

Re: FAI, RAID, booting

2002-09-18 Thread pll
Hi all, I've got my system installing to the RAID 1 set (4-way mirror). My fstab looks like this: /dev/md0/ ext3defaults0 1 /dev/md1/boot ext3defaults0 1 /dev/md2/usr

Re: FAI_SOURCES_LIST_CLIENT

2002-08-21 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:21:33 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Errr, because (as I said) # Can't use the $FAI/files approach because those are # processed too late for our purposes. I guess I'm missing the problem you're trying to solve. If you set the /fai/etc/fai.conf

sub-dirs of /etc?

2002-07-12 Thread pll
Hi all, In the /fai/files/etc directory, there are several sub-dirs, one for each file which belongs in /etc on the install client. Under each of those directories go the file you want installed for a specific class. For example, /etc/printcap would be /fai/files/etc/printcap/CLASSNAME. My

scripts question

2002-07-09 Thread pll
Hi all, I noticed that under scripts directory, that there is a combination of both executables and directories. Am I correct in my understadning that FAI is intelligent enough to determine if the directory entry is a directory and to descend into it only if that class name is defined?

Seqence of events...

2002-06-10 Thread pll
Hi all, I'm slowly muddling through here getting my FAI server set up. I'd like some input as to whether I've done this correctly or not. So far, I've done the following: - Set up and installed the OS on the server - Set up and configured a Debian mirror - Installed

client not finding installkernel img

2002-06-10 Thread pll
Hi, I'm a little confused. The dhcp server config has the statements: filename /boot/fai/pxelinux.0; next-server nomen; which I understand to mean that the install client will attempt to dhcp boot, then be redirected to 'nomen' to tftp the file pxelinux.0 Is this correct?

Confusion with docs

2002-06-07 Thread pll
Hi all, I'm new to FAI and just trying now to set up my installation server. I have the Debian mirror up and running, and am able to use it from my workstation with apt-get. Now I'm trying to configure FAI. I'm trying to do this with PXE on eepro100s. The docs say that you need: