Jeff Schroeder wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Terry McIntyre wrote: >> >>> A poster asked how to customize a hundred nearly-identical systems; >>> this is a lot like my environment. >>> >>> We have a single kickstart template, and only the mountpoints differ >>> on a per-system basis. >>> >>> The post section includes: >>> >>> SNIPPET::config_mounts >>> >>> Instead of a single snippets/config_mounts script, there is a >>> directory at /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/per_system/config_mounts ; >>> inside this directory is a script snippet for each system, with the same >>> name. >>> >>> More info on the cobbler wiki. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cobbler mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >>> >>> >> Using subprofiles and per_profile snippets may also work for you if you >> have a set of them that are quasi-indentical ... >> >> (i..e webservers and webservers-pittsburgh and webservers-winston-salem >> and dbservers and dbservers-san-diego...) >> > > I'm failing to see how you couldn't replace 50 snippets (one per host) > with 1 cheetah template and some builtin hostname logic like the > timezone example I posted showed. > >
Indeed. Snippets are a very large hammer. --ksmeta can work magic. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
