Alex Davies wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Quick question/observation:
>
> [r...@prov snippets]# cobbler system dumpvars --name=svn | grep mac
> 'mac_address': '00:0c:29:f3:0f:d8',
> 'mac_address_eth0': '00:0c:29:f3:0f:d8',
> ...
>
> Using this in a snippet, I would expect both to print the MAC address,
> however only the interface level MAC works:
>
> #print $getVar('$mac_address', 'TESTing')
> #print $getVar('$mac_address_eth0', 'TESTing')
>
> In fact, the output is as follows:
>
> #print Nothing
> #print 00:0c:29:9d:8d:b9
>
> I'm running Cobbler 1.6.2 (Centos/5; EPEL RPM).
>
> While i'm quite sure there is a sensible reason for this, it seems
> confusing that dumpvars does not provide a list of variables that can
> be used in getVar. The excellent "Install VMWare kernel" snippet @
> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartSnippets (Written by
> Matt Hyclak) should also be updated to use _eth0 if this is intended
> behaviour..
>
> Many thanks,
>
> ALex
>
The network config snippets show how to access MAC addresses and are
what we use in /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/sample*.ks.
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