Using wget to leverage mod_python & cheetah is a very powerful tool and I'm quite fond of it. However, http has no knowledge of file permissions. File permissions can be important when specifying config files, and not just for security. As things stand now, for every file downloaded by the $download_config_file snippet that needs non-standard permissions, one has to specify them manually in the kickstart.
Once the file exists, I do believe that wget keeps the existing permissions on the specified '--output-document,' thus, files subsequently updated by koan --update-files, if they exist on the system, won't have their permissions altered. I would love to find a way to leverage cheetah via mod_python /and/ have the method of file transfer preserve permissions. I'm far from knowledgeable about apache, but to my knowledge, there is no way to leverage mod_python with an apache ftp server. If I'm wrong, it would seem that simply using wget with the --preserve-permissions flag would be sufficient to achieve what I want. Does anyone more knowledgeable about the subject have any ideas how to make this work? I'm willing to update cobbler as necessary, I just don't know how to go about making what I want happen. -- Benjamin Riggs System Staff School of Mathematics University of Minnesota _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
