command line access disabled by default

2011-11-10 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi Command line access is disabled by default... I assume this is by design. It did caught me out a bit. I was wondering if it would not be better to allow access by default... to keep things simple? In the mean time I have updated https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/UsingCobblerImport To

Re: command line access disabled by default

2011-11-10 Thread James Cammarata
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Command line access is disabled by default... I assume this is by design. It did caught me out a bit. I was wondering if it would not be better to allow access by default... to keep things simple?

Re: command line access disabled by default

2011-11-10 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
H, I thought I tested it Doing a re-install again it now works where as previously I could not login if I did not change the file called /etc/cobbler/auth.conf Maybe something else was wrong. I am using vanilla 5.6 Red Hat and cobbler-web-2.2.1-1.el5 cobbler-2.2.1-1.el5 Any ideas why

Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread Dan White
I have set up a cobbler server to kickstart/build HP ProLiant boxen of various flavors with RHEL5 I have a particularly stubborn DL380 G5 that refuses to be PXE-booted/net-installed I suspect a FUBAR from the guy that manages the DNS/DHCP, but I need more evidence. When it tries to PXE-boot,

Re: Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 11/10/2011 09:47 AM, Dan White wrote: I have set up a cobbler server to kickstart/build HP ProLiant boxen of various flavors with RHEL5 I have a particularly stubborn DL380 G5 that refuses to be PXE-booted/net-installed I suspect a FUBAR from the guy that manages the DNS/DHCP, but I

RE: Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread Byron Pezan
I too have run into this issue. Just like Orion, the solution for me was 'spanning-tree portfast' on the switch port itself on our Cisco switches. The issue seems to be compounded by the fact that kickstart installs seem to insist on requesting a DHCP address 3 times during the install

RE: Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread antonio teixeira gomes jr
Hey Sr, I have had this problem a simple kickstart system before, and t was related to reverse DNS resolution, in my case as it was a simple environment I just used the option dns=nodns From: bpe...@secureworks.com To: cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Subject: RE: Weird Kickstart Problem In

Re: Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread Dylan Swift
Hi Dan, I have seen timeout issues like this caused by the switch connected to the server not bringing the port up in time for the PXE request to be answered. In that case I had to enable 'spanning-tree portfast' (in Cisco speak) on the port I was connected to, or disable spanning-tree. HTH

Re: Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread Dan White
Where do I add this option ? On Nov 10, 2011, at 4:09 PM, antonio teixeira gomes jr wrote: Hey Sr, I have had this problem a simple kickstart system before, and t was related to reverse DNS resolution, in my case as it was a simple environment I just used the option dns=nodns From:

Re: Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread Dan White
On Nov 10, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 11/10/2011 09:47 AM, Dan White wrote: I have set up a cobbler server to kickstart/build HP ProLiant boxen of various flavors with RHEL5 I have a particularly stubborn DL380 G5 that refuses to be PXE-booted/net-installed I suspect

Re: Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread petermity
Dan White y...@comcast.net wrote: On Nov 10, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 11/10/2011 09:47 AM, Dan White wrote: I have set up a cobbler server to kickstart/build HP ProLiant boxen of various flavors with RHEL5 I have a particularly stubborn DL380 G5 that refuses to be

Weird Kickstart Problem In Search of a Clue

2011-11-10 Thread Dan White
I have set up a cobbler server to kickstart/build HP ProLiant boxen of various flavors with RHEL5 I have a particularly stubborn DL380 G5 that refuses to be PXE-booted/net-installed I suspect a FUBAR from the guy that manages the DNS/DHCP, but I need more evidence. When it tries to PXE-boot,