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
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)