[Sisuite-users] fstab is not being updated

[Brenner, Matthew A.]

Title: fstab is not being updated

Hi,

I a new user of SystemImager. I'm quite impressed. I'm using it in a classroom containing one server (2 network cards) and 15 classroom machines; all running Debian Sarge. I got my server and one classroom machine configured correctly and then installed SystemImager-server on my server and SystemImager-client on the workstation. I followed instruction from the manual faithfully and imaged the remaining 14 machines.

Next I made some changes to the first workstation. Amoung other things, I added a line to /etc/fstab to mount another file system using NFS. Naturally, I fetched the new image from the workstation to the server and it took only a short time as I used the image name (so it was only an 'update'). Now, when I run si_updateclient on another workstation, a small number of files gets deleted and another bunch added (including /etc/fstab) but after si_updateclient finishes (message: Installation finished. No errors reported) the update seems to be successful, EXCEPT for /etc/fstab which had NOT changed.

I peeked at the master script and the fstab data in there is correct! I peeked at fstab in the /etc directory of the image tree and fstab is correct! What is going on that would cause SystemImager to fail to overwrite the old /etc/fstab with the new one?

Cheers,
Matt

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Matt Brenner
Instructor in Computer Science
Phillips Exeter Academy
20 Main Street
Exeter, NH 03833

phone:  (603) 775-7061
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