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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Kickstart File Post 302138420 by Georgesaa on Monday 1st of October 2007 01:24:55 PM
Old 10-01-2007
Kickstart File

Hi,
I was able to set up a kickstart to install Red Hat Enterprise thought a network.

I'm trying to enable a NTP time server in the post section of the kickstart file and also enable/disable a few services using chkconfig.

I can't seam to get it to work, can anyone help ? I don't beleive i have the correct synthax.

%post
/usr/sbin/ntpdate -s ntp.*****.**.*
/sbin/chkconfig -- isdn 0: off 1: off 2: on 3: off 4: on 5: off 6: off
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show-installed(1)														 show-installed(1)

NAME
show-installed - show installed RPM packages and descriptions SYNOPSIS
show-installed [options] DESCRIPTION
show-installed gives a compact description of the packages installed (or given) making use of the comps groups found in the repositories. OPTIONS
-h, --help show this help message and exit -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT yum, kickstart or human; yum gives the result as a yum command line; kickstart the content of a %packages section; "human" readable is default. -i INPUT, --input=INPUT File to read the package list from instead of using the rpmdb. - for stdin. The file must contain package names only separated by white space (including newlines). rpm -qa --qf='%{name} ' produces proper output. -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT File to write the result to. Stdout is used if option is omitted. -q, --quiet Do not show warnings. -e, --no-excludes Only show groups that are installed completely. Do not use exclude lines. --global-excludes Print exclude lines at the end and not after the groups requiring them. --global-addons Print package names at the end and not after the groups offering them as addon. --addons-by-group Also show groups not selected to sort packages contained by them. Those groups are commented out with a "# " at the begin of the line. -m, --allow-mandatories Check if just installing the mandatory packages gives better results. Uses "." to mark those groups. -a, --allow-all Check if installing all packages in the groups gives better results. Uses "*" to mark those groups. --ignore-missing Ignore packages missing in the repos. --ignore-missing-excludes Do not produce exclude lines for packages not in the repository. Florian Festi 21 October 2010 show-installed(1)
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