Thanks, but this would not work here, where we need 2 console (one for tty0,
one for ttyS1). Augeas could handle in this case ..

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Dominic Cleal <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 28/03/11 08:54, hai wu wrote:
> > It turns out augeas on RHEL6 is 0.7.2, which does not have 'setm'
> > command available. 'setm' is available in augeas release 0.8, which is
> > available in EPEL, but not available for RHEL6 (the reason is the
> > package is already in RHEL6, thus no package would be released in EPEL
> > for this.
>
> The setm command is supported in 0.7.2, which you can check with
> augtool.  From http://augeas.net/news.html:
>
> 0.7.2 - 2010-06-22
>    * new API call aug_setm to set/create multiple nodes simultaneously
>
> I've just checked with augtool from the optional software channel on 6.1
> and it's there.
>
> > All I want to do is to put console=ttyS0 on all kernel lines in
> > /etc/grub.conf. Since there is no such 'setm' available with augeas
> > 0.7.2, is there any other workaround using augeas? Or the only way is to
> > ask RedHat to upgrade its augeas package on RHEL6?
>
> It's deeper than this, as you'll need ruby-augeas 0.4.0 or the 0.3.0-2
> RPM from EPEL (which was patched) to support setm.  These seem to be
> missing for EPEL6 at the moment though... I've asked David to see if
> 0.4.0 can be pushed.
>
> Once you've got that, you'll also need the patch from this issue to
> support it in the Puppet provider which has to natively understand each
> command:
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6494
>
> Given all of the above, I'd consider using 'grubby' instead:
>
> define boot_kernel_arg($arg, $value) {
>    exec { "grubby-arg-$arg":
>        command => "grubby --update-kernel DEFAULT --args '$arg=$value'",
>        unless  => "grubby --info DEFAULT | grep args= | grep
> '$arg=$value'",
>    }
> }
>
> boot_kernel_arg { "kernel-console":
>    arg   => "console",
>    value => "ttyS0",
> }
>
> You might be able to do something involving ALL instead of DEFAULT too
> (check the man page).
>
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