Kelly Collier wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'd like to modify certain values in the config files on client machines.
> 
> For example:
> 
> in /boot/grub/menu.lst, change "timeout   10" to "timeout   3"
> 
> I'd prefer not to create a template, since there's no guarantee that the 
> rest of menu.lst is the same (e.g., a kernel is updated on one client 
> machine but not another).
> 
> The sloppy solution I'm using now is exec'ing a sed command if 
> /timeout\s+3/ is not found in the file. But it just seems tacky.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to do this more properly?
For grub, check if your distro has "grubby", a command line tool for modifying 
the grub config file.  Last I saw it was 
on RedHat/CentOS/Fedora; it's not on the Debian I have here to hand, nor my 
Ubuntu, so I don't know where it comes from. 
   Other distros may have equivalents.

Craig Miskell

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