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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Cobbler - what is the advantage? Post 302744025 by hankpym on Thursday 13th of December 2012 04:22:08 PM

12-13-2012

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Cobbler - what is the advantage?

Hi guys, new user here, so please be gentle.

I need to build a lot of servers at work on a weekly basis with various versions of RH and additional applications.

We use PXE/Kickstart to do this with selections made from a simple menu structure.

However, I keep hearing about Cobbler and although I have some documentation on it, I still cannot figure out any advantage it has over the pxe/kickstart method.

What am I not 'getting'?

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NAME

     makewhatis.local, catman.local -- start makewhatis or catman for local file systems

SYNOPSIS

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     The makewhatis.local utility starts makewhatis(1) only for file systems physically mounted on the system where the makewhatis.local is being
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