thanks for your speedy reply. see my comments below Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Mark: > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Mark Seger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I think we're talking about two different things - at least I hope we are - >> because this document talks about a feature introduced in version 3.9.4 and >> I'm talking about something I've been using since pre 3.0 days, at least I >> think that's when I first started using SI. >> >> I'm specifically talking about putting one or more files into the directory >> /var/lib/systemimager/overrides/scriptname/... and after systemimager >> installs the image it looks to see if there are any files in this hierarchy >> and if so, overrides the image with them. It's in this hierarchy I'm >> putting /etc/rc5.d/script. My expectation is after the system boots my >> script will be ADDED to what was in /etc/rc5.d and not replace everything >> with it. >> > > What version of SystemImager are you currently using? > 4.0.2 > You said your overrides are in > "/var/lib/systemimager/overrides/scriptname/" -- is "scriptname" the > name of your image? > yes > The following should be the correct path for the script (on your image > server) you'd want overwritten on the system after it's been imaged: > > /var/lib/systemimager/overrides/<imagename>/etc/rc5.d/<scriptname> > agreed > If you are upgrading from older version of SystemImage, it might be > possible some directory structures have not been updated -- not > entirely sure. > anything is always possible > Other things to try: > > 1) Go through your imaging log to see if there are any errors > pertaining to overrides > didn't even know there is an imaging log (I guess I never needed to look). where is it? > 2) Do not reboot the server after imaging, and manually go in to check > /a to see if etc/rc5.d/ really contains only your one script > this is exactly what I did. when put something in the overrides directory and imaged the system, only my script was in /etc/rc5.d/ and when I removed it from the overrides directory and reimaged everything was there as it should be. -mark > Cheers, > > Bernard >
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