I'm fine with the idea, but have modified the message a bit, and have
reduced the number of ping attempts to seven. I figure, if we're not
actually going to fail, but are going to proceed anyway, it's just an
informative thing to give someone a "happy it's working" feeling, so if
it hasn't succeeded in 7 pings, let's not delay the install any longer.
Here's the fresh code snippet:
while [ "$PING_EXIT_STATUS" != "0" ]
do
echo "PING ATTEMPT $PING_COUNT: "
ping -c 1 $IMAGESERVER; PING_EXIT_STATUS=$?; PING_COUNT=$(( $PING_COUNT + 1 ))
if [ "$PING_COUNT" = "7" ]; then
echo
echo " WARNING: Cannot ping the image server \"$IMAGESERVER\""
echo " Despite this seemingly depressing result, I will attempt"
echo " to proceed with the install. Your imageserver may be"
echo " configured to not respond to pings, but it wouldn't hurt"
echo " to double check that your networking equipment is"
echo " working properly!"
echo
sleep 5
fi
done
if [ "$PING_EXIT_STATUS" = "0" ]; then
echo
echo " We have connectivity to the Image Server!"
fi
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 07:26:50PM +0100, Dan wrote:
> > Having a slight suspicion that shouting at them won't help the situation (and
> > expecting the decision not to be reversed) I would be very grateful for a
> > pointer on how to modify the installation CD in order to remove the requirement
> > to ping the image server prior to installation (if this is possible).
>
> actually... it would make sense to me if the client code just went ahead
> and tried the install, even if the ping failed. the reason we added
> the ping was to make some switches aware of our existance, iirc.
>
> i just committed this patch - Brian: feel free to revert if you
> disagree.
>
> --- functions 19 Aug 2003 22:23:25 -0000 1.32
> +++ functions 28 Aug 2003 06:43:17 -0000
> @@ -658,11 +658,10 @@ ping_test() {
> ping -c 1 $IMAGESERVER; PING_EXIT_STATUS=$?; PING_COUNT=$(( $PING_COUNT + 1
> ))
> if [ "$PING_COUNT" = "21" ]; then
> echo
> - echo " FATAL: Cannot ping the image server \"$IMAGESERVER\""
> - echo " Be sure that your networking equipment is"
> - echo " working properly!"
> + echo " WARNING: Cannot ping the image server \"$IMAGESERVER\""
> + echo " Be sure that your networking equipment is"
> + echo " working properly!"
> echo
> - shellout
> fi
> done
>
>
> Dan: anyway, this code is in /etc/init.d/functions, in the
> initrd.img file. you need to crack it open, copy the contents elsewhere,
> make your change & regen a new initrd.img.
>
> something like this:
>
> cd /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard
> cp initrd.img initrd.img.bak
> gunzip < initrd.img > initrd
> mkdir /mnt/tmp
> mount initrd /mnt/tmp -o loop
> mkdir /tmp/initrd
> cp -a /mnt/tmp/* /tmp/initrd
> cd /tmp/initrd
> <make your changes in this tree>
> mkinitrd /tmp/initrd /tmp/initrd.img
> cd -
> mv /tmp/initrd.img .
>
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