Jeff Schroeder wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jeff Schroeder wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jeff Schroeder <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Tom Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>> If you have any real questions feel free to ask them on this list. In >>>>>> our cobbler deployment we use the --template-files for a 1/2 dozen or >>>>>> so files. It works great and you can just "koan -u" to fix things once >>>>>> you break them from the server. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> i guess if someone could give an example about how say a httpd.conf >>>>> could be >>>>> supplied and associated with a particular profile that would be great >>>>> and >>>>> also the steps to get that onto the client, although from the docs i >>>>> have >>>>> read that seems pretty clear. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Make a directory like /etc/cobbler/templates and put your httpd.conf >>>> in there. Then you could do a command like this: >>>> cobbler system edit --name webserver1 >>>> >>>> --template-files="/etc/cobbler/templates/httpd.conf.webfarm=/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" >>>> >>>> >>> Also note you have to manually rsync /etc/cobbler/templates. Cobbler >>> replicate isn't intelligent enough to replicate templates and there is >>> no standard cobbler template directory right now. >>> >>> >>> >> Good point.... A couple of ways we could possibly fix this. >> >> (A) By convention, use some template root. >> >> (B) Loop through the templates assigned to any cobbler object and scp those >> with cobbler replicate. >> >> A seems cleaner to me, possibly /etc/cobbler/config_templates/ ? >> > > Please please please :) > > Would it be possible for a clean way to override that area so we don't > have to update a whole bunch of existing system records? We are using > /srv/templates. > > Thanks > >
Well, we could do an scp for each file .... doesn't seem terribly evil. (I am assuming most people doing replicate will have invoked ssh-agent first or are using authorized_keys anyway...) --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
