/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts and /var/lib/cobbler/snippets

The kickstart file you can view from the web interface (or by command line 
"cobbler system getks --name="...") is dynamically generated.


“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in 
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

----- Robert Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I just got started with cobbler.  I set it up a RHEL6.2 desktop VM, 
> added the EPEL repo, and installed cobbler and cobbler-web:
>      cobbler-2.0.11-2.el6.noarch
>      cobbler-web-2011-2.el6.noarch
> 
> I imported the RHEL6.2 install media into cobbler, then added a new 
> system based on that profile.  I PXE-booted another VM using the server 
> and it seems to be working perfectly.
> 
> So.. where the heck is the kickstart file on the filesystem?  Using the 
> web interface, I can "view" it, but I'll be darned if I can find the 
> thing on the server anywhere.  AFAICT there's no way to edit the thing 
> through the web UI, right?
> 
> I also tried creating a new kickstart file (again, in the web UI), by 
> copying and pasting the kickstart file that was automatically 
> generated.  However, when I try that, I get a server error (lots of 
> debug output not shown here) in /cobbler_web/ksfile/save.
> 
> Cheetah.Parse.ParseError:  Error in the Python code which Cheetah 
> generated for this template: [...]
> 
> (full error attached)
> 
> BTW, I tried creating just a simple kickstart file with a comment -- 
> that works fine.  I only get the error when I copy/paste the 
> auto-generated kickstart.
> 
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