4 Jan 23:25
Re: Kickstart tracking in 0.3.6
Ok, kickstart tracking is implemented and pushed, so if anyone wants to play with this, please check out the Mercurial repository. Just run a "cobbler sync" after the upgrade to get Apache configured correctly. I probably won't release this (along with the rest of 0.3.6) until mid-next week. Manpage docs have to be written first :) In order to see when machines have truly finished, the kickstart files need to contain the following somewhere in post: %post TEMPLATE::kickstart_done I have updated the default kickstarts that come with cobbler, so you can see what is done there. And then, at any time, one can run the following and see following for all distros in their system: [root <at> mdehaan cobbler]# cobbler status Address | State | Started | Last Request | Seconds | File Count 172.16.56.91 | notdone | Thu Jan 4 16:23:16 2007 | Thu Jan 4 17:13:32 2007 | 3016 | 1422 Individual status of files transferred is stored in /var/log/cobbler/kicklog/$IPADDR. Right now, these files are not pruned, though in future versions I might decide to delete them if they haven't been modified in 30 days, or something like that. This really shouldn't be a problem as the files won't be huge. If you're using kickstart trees on another partition, you'll only see a(Continue reading)
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