Michael DeHaan | 4 Jan 23:25
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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 
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