I have a RHEL ES 4 system that I just installed. it, I made quite a few
security changes to configuration files, chmoding certain system files, etc. I'd
like to use kickstart to "clone" this system onto other boxes. I've read through
the system-config-kickstart documentation, and done some googling, and I can't
see where it says that kickstart will use these changes on the new boxes. AAMF,
it LKS like I have to specify installation of entire classes of rpms, like ALL
administrations tools.
Could someone point me in the direction of an FAQ or something else that will
explain how to configure kickstart to mirror one system on another?
Thanks!
Bill

when we build machines we put our "tweaks" in the kickstart.cfg file
after the %post line. typical shell style commands will do.

Kevin Kramer
Sr. Systems Administrator
512.418.5725
Centaur Technology, Inc.
www.centtech.com

Bill Tangren wrote the following on 11/15/06 13:37:
I have a RHEL ES 4 system that I just installed. it, I made quite a
few security changes to configuration files, chmoding certain system
files, etc. I'd like to use kickstart to "clone" this system onto
other boxes. I've read through the system-config-kickstart
documentation, and done some googling, and I can't see where it says
that kickstart will use these changes on the new boxes. AAMF, it
LKS like I have to specify installation of entire classes of rpms,
like ALL administrations tools.

Could someone point me in the direction of an FAQ or something else
that will explain how to configure kickstart to mirror one system on
another?

Thanks!

Bill

Kevin Kramer wrote:
when we build machines we put our "tweaks" in the kickstart.cfg file
after the %post line. typical shell style commands will do.

So, if a tweak is to replace the default sshd_config with a modified one, I can
put the modified sshd_config on the kickstart CD (or wherever I put the
kickstart data), and it will mv the modified version over the default?

Kevin Kramer
Sr. Systems Administrator
512.418.5725
Centaur Technology, Inc.
www.centtech.com

Bill Tangren wrote the following on 11/15/06 13:37:
>I have a RHEL ES 4 system that I just installed. it, I made quite a
>few security changes to configuration files, chmoding certain system
>files, etc. I'd like to use kickstart to "clone" this system onto
>other boxes. I've read through the system-config-kickstart
>documentation, and done some googling, and I can't see where it says
>that kickstart will use these changes on the new boxes. AAMF, it
>LKS like I have to specify installation of entire classes of rpms,
>like ALL administrations tools.
>>
>Could someone point me in the direction of an FAQ or something else
>that will explain how to configure kickstart to mirror one system on
>another?
>>
>Thanks!
>>
>Bill
>>

Bill Tangren wrote:

So, if a tweak is to replace the default sshd_config with a modified
one, I can put the modified sshd_config on the kickstart CD (or wherever
I put the kickstart data), and it will mv the modified version over the
default?

simply put it onto a webserver and wget it. "sed" the original one.

yes. we do numerous 'wget' and 'cp /net/whatever'

Kevin Kramer
Sr. Systems Administrator
512.418.5725
Centaur Technology, Inc.
www.centtech.com

BERES Laszlo wrote the following on 11/15/06 15:36:
Bill Tangren wrote:


>So, if a tweak is to replace the default sshd_config with a modified
>one, I can put the modified sshd_config on the kickstart CD (or wherever
>I put the kickstart data), and it will mv the modified version over the
>default?
>
>
simply put it onto a webserver and wget it. "sed" the original one.

Kevin Kramer wrote:
yes. we do numerous 'wget' and 'cp /net/whatever'

Thanks!

Kevin Kramer
Sr. Systems Administrator
512.418.5725
Centaur Technology, Inc.
www.centtech.com

BERES Laszlo wrote the following on 11/15/06 15:36:
>Bill Tangren wrote:
>>
>
So, if a tweak is to replace the default sshd_config with a modified
one, I can put the modified sshd_config on the kickstart CD (or wherever
I put the kickstart data), and it will mv the modified version over the
default?

>>
>simply put it onto a webserver and wget it. "sed" the original one.
>>
>

If you want you can make an image file and just restore it to the other pc
will work.

dd if=/dev/hda of=disk.img bs=10024

will create exact image of you complete drive in disk.img file.

Than boot the other pc with rescue mode and give just reverse command.

But only problem is you can not have different partition scheme.

Hope will help you

11/15/06, Bill Tangren <bjt (AT) aa (DOT) usno.navy.milwrote:

Kevin Kramer wrote:
yes. we do numerous 'wget' and 'cp /net/whatever'

Thanks!
>
>
>
>

Kevin Kramer
Sr. Systems Administrator
512.418.5725
Centaur Technology, Inc.
www.centtech.com
>
>
>
BERES Laszlo wrote the following on 11/15/06 15:36:
>Bill Tangren wrote:
>>
>>
So, if a tweak is to replace the default sshd_config with a modified
one, I can put the modified sshd_config on the kickstart CD (or
wherever
I put the kickstart data), and it will mv the modified version over
the
default?

>>
>simply put it onto a webserver and wget it. "sed" the original
one.
>>
>>
>