On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, D. Christopher Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > It appears that a problem was introduced in the 1.4 release on my fedora > 10 laptop. The following section of the %post section of my kickstarts > used to poduce a desired host name of dbg01.dbg.gesi (or whatever node I > was building). > > # set hostname and populate hosts file > cat >> /etc/sysconfig/networking << EOF > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=$grid$node.dbg.gesi > EOF > > %hostname produces: dbg.dbg.gesi. > > If I escape the . after the variable as follows: > > # set hostname and populate hosts file > cat >> /etc/sysconfig/networking << EOF > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=$grid$node\.dbg.gesi > EOF > > %hostname is dbg01.dbg.gesi. The /etc/sysconfig/network file keeps the > \, as expected.
Try something like this: # set hostname and populate hosts file #raw cat >> /etc/sysconfig/networking << EOF NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=$grid$node.dbg.gesi EOF #end raw See this for more info: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating#RawescapingandSnippets -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. http://www.digitalprognosis.com _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
