In a message dated: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:23:55 EDT
Michael O'Donnell said:
>I've so far had problems related to TFTP, DHCP
>and SSH. I discovered (after some tortuous debugging)
>that the first two were the result of incompatibilities
>with the particular servers I was running, so in those
>cases I changed servers.
For DHCP, it's a lot easier to use the older DHCP v2.x series server.
With the 3.x series server, they changed a bunch of the option-X
options to be in the "vendor defined" options area instead. It's
definitely do-able with the 3.x series server, but a little more
futzing is required to get it to work.
For tftp, it's definitely best to use the hpa-tftp server from H.
Peter Anvin as recommended in the docs.
>The SSH problem turned out to be related to the recent
>"privilege separation" changes that have been pissing off a lot of people.
I got bit myself by this on Friday as I was trying to build a new
"bldsvr" machine to go into production rather than my "sandbox"
system I've been experimenting with. It pissed me off, and I'm not
even sure what I did to get around the problem, but it's working now.
>By the end of the weekend I had gotten to the point
>where the client boxes could boot using a floppy
I haven't had the chance to deal with the boot floppy at all, having
to good fortune to be in possession of "spare" machines which all
have PXE capability.
>looks like I'm now ready for the REALLY
>hard part: setting up classes and writing scripts that
>configure systems belonging to each of those classes.
This is actually really easy, as it's nothing more than writing
class/* shell scripts which write a class name to STDOUT in order to
define a class based upon whatever criteria you choose. The scripts/*
can be shell, perl, or cfengine scripts. Actually, I think the class/*
scripts can be perl, shell, or cfengine as well.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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