Re: [cobbler] Cobbler in the cloud

2012-03-10 Thread Michael DeHaan
I'll chime in here. The virt image support in cobbler is pretty well tacked on -- it was originally developed to just track a library of images on NFS (crazy feature request that I maybe shouldn't have accepted) and I don't think it's very useful for that. It mostly likes to deploy things via

[cobbler] Recruiting new project leaders!

2012-02-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
Hey all, Not to be scary or anything, but here's a short message from your interim leader. I'm looking to make ownership of Cobbler more democratic. In short, I'm wanting to disappear and let someone else take Cobbler in whatever direction they would like to take it -- not having the need

Re: [cobbler] created system in web interface. Where's the kickstart file?

2012-02-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
FYI, this list isn't moderated. There could be mailman/mailserver issues in play. On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Robert Jacobson wrote: Moderator is slow .. my original message with an attachment did not go through yet. Here's the original without the attachment: On

Re: [cobbler] Recruiting new project leaders!

2012-02-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
FWIW, I'm more than happy with granting one or two additional committers with proven track records, even if you mainly work on the web app or mainly work elsewhere. We do need somebody to be able to make the big calls, to release, and to coordinate others -- and to appreciate what release

Re: [cobbler] Data storage locations for cobbler and/or why does it corrupt form data?

2012-02-27 Thread Michael DeHaan
Besides /var/lib/cobbler, where does cobbler store data? https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/File%20System%20Information I ended up with some corrupted data in Kickstart Metadata that refused to be fixed when I saved the form. I stopped httpd, edited the json file (this is a

[cobbler] (Somewhat OT) -- Introducing my new remote control framework

2012-02-25 Thread Michael DeHaan
I figure there's enough of a user base crossover between Cobbler, Puppet/Chef, and Func-land to make this interesting. This is the project I've been working on for the last, well, couple of nights: Ansible. Introductory blog post

Re: [cobbler] Incorrect links on import and rename

2012-02-23 Thread Michael DeHaan
Ok please make sure this is filed in github.com/cobbler/cobbler's issue tracker. (Reminder to all -- I am mostly in Linus mode facilitating here, if folks care about this project releasing again soon, you will need to submit pull requests to fix items in the bug queue!) --Michael On

Re: [cobbler] Documentation for RHEL

2012-02-23 Thread Michael DeHaan
This is basically the step by step guide. https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Start%20Here The main starter workflow for all new users should be this https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Using%20Cobbler%20Import Additions are welcome, reorg not so much. Including a bootstrap kickstart

Re: [cobbler] Testing cobbler install - pxe tftp open timeout

2012-02-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
Of Jörgen Maas Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:49 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Testing cobbler install - pxe tftp open timeout Do you get these cheetah template errors from sysB also ??? On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Michael DeHaan

Re: [cobbler] PXE TFTP Time Out

2012-02-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
Options in the configuration file (not the template) seems reasonable. The dynamic check for it is a bit overkill. On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Scott, Sean I wrote: I just completed a (2) fresh install of cobbler for the first time. One at my home network on EL6.2 and one

Re: [cobbler] Systems don't inherit profile's kickstart metadata?

2012-02-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
no. On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Joshua J. Kugler elucidated thus: You could possibly use Cobbler with manage_dhcp and manage_dns to ensure you gave out a particular hostname, though ordinarily I'd expect you to at

Re: [cobbler] Read write cobbler xmlrpc API

2012-02-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
My question is that the read write API requires a token which requires a user and password. What password do I use in that case if I am using the passthru authentication? Here's the source of the module: def authenticate(api_handle,username,password): Validate a username/password combo,

Re: [cobbler-devel] fetching kernel/initrd from a distro

2012-02-17 Thread Michael DeHaan
What do you guys think about something like this? kernel_save = %s/%s%s % (download_root, kernel_short, _koan) initrd_save = %s/%s%s % (download_root, initrd_short, _koan) that will keep the installed kernel/initrd intact. Do you see any bad sideeffect? Provided the right arguments

Re: [cobbler] restoring damaged install trees and repo mirrors

2012-02-16 Thread Michael DeHaan
In particular the install tree - there's a cobbler import command for the first time, which adds a distro, however if the import has been done already for a given distro but the imported data lost, can any of it be refreshed, and if so which parts? Import is merely a shortcut around cobbler

Re: [cobbler] Systems don't inherit profile's kickstart metadata?

2012-02-16 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: So, this problem: Doing koan installs and allowing auto-register gives me a system with localhost as the host name and a weird floating point number as the system name in Cobbler, instead of what I expected, which was

Re: [cobbler] Systems don't inherit profile's kickstart metadata?

2012-02-16 Thread Michael DeHaan
:37 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote: OK, I understand that that there was no hostname assigned. However, how do you assign one when you're installing with koan and --profile? I supplied a --virt-name, which I expected to be the name it used to auto- register the machine. There could be a way

Re: [cobbler] Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

2012-02-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
Yes, I've been slack and didn't draw anything up, but I'm vetoing the boot favicon. Boot gravely offends me :) Just a letter C or generic free gear icon or something would be better as a temporary measure. Almost anything. On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Greg Swift wrote:

Re: [cobbler] Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

2012-02-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
I just don't like work boots? :) On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Greg Swift wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 15:44, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: Yes, I've been slack and didn't draw anything up, but I'm vetoing the boot

Re: [cobbler] Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

2012-02-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
works4me.send a pull request. On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Greg Swift wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 16:05, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: I just don't like work boots? :) okay. you didn't comment on the 'c

Re: [cobbler] Broken link on site

2012-02-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Updated -- I pointed folks to the distribution mirror for SRPMs. You can also build them yourself if you want source RPMs off of the head. On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: Hi FYI http://people.fedoraproject.org/\~shenson/cobbler/ on

Re: [cobbler] Looking for more details on Virtualization options

2012-02-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Yes. Presently it doesn't execute virt-install (of which virsh is a sibling), but uses the libraries underlying all of that, to do exactly that. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Joshua J. Kugler jos...@azariah.com wrote: So, the page on cobbler virtualization options seems a bit sparse.

Re: [cobbler-devel] Certificate-based RHN registration snippet

2012-02-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Never mind, I see this in the second patch. Anyone else want to offer thoughts (and testing?) before I pull this? https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/66 --Michael On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote: Basically, it should/could still source the same

Re: [cobbler] Install with kernel issues

2012-02-11 Thread Michael DeHaan
Cobbler is just the install server, issues with the kernel/installer itself should go elsewhere. Perhaps start with: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Seth Yates s...@spoodie.com wrote: I'm new to Cobbler but pretty familiar with Kickstart. I've been

Re: [cobbler] Use bootp instead of dnsmasq/

2012-02-10 Thread Michael DeHaan
The DHCP server does not work as you say -- the actual request for the MAC specific file is done by pxelinux.0, making a TFTP request to known file paths. I don't understand the need for it just has DHCP features or one line configs, since we support some options that ALSO have DHCP features

Re: [cobbler] Use bootp instead of dnsmasq/

2012-02-10 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Javier Domingo wrote: El 10/02/2012 14:48, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) escribió: The DHCP server does not work as you say -- the actual request for the MAC specific file is done by pxelinux.0

Re: [cobbler] Use bootp instead of dnsmasq/

2012-02-10 Thread Michael DeHaan
or not you decided you wanted cobbler to manage it. --Michael On Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Javier Domingo wrote: El 10/02/2012 15:44, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) escribió: On Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Javier Domingo

Re: [cobbler] latest cobbler RPM

2012-02-10 Thread Michael DeHaan
I'd build from source if you want absolute latest, seeing those are dated in October. 2.0's in EPEL. We should probably figure out plans for testing and next release at some point, though I don't really see anything pushing for that release. Thoughts Scott (and others)? On Friday, February

Re: [cobbler] Cobbler SCCM Integration

2012-02-09 Thread Michael DeHaan
I don't use of any of this so I don't know anything at all about this particular area. Small request to everyone -- Please don't reply to the mailing list when you don't know about the topic. It's a rather large list, so consider if your reply is going to be informative to the list as a

Re: 'int' object is not iterable

2012-02-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
There isn't enough info here to tell, but you've likely got an error in a Cheetah template. It's interesting that it happened editing a distro, but a variable changed in editing the distro might have required retemplating a system. cobbler distro report --name=foo cobbler system report # all

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Port koan from virtinst to virt-install command

2012-02-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
Hi again Cole! Hmm … yes, I remember this discussion from years ago :) First comments are that this is both a decent new approach (using the CLI versus XML), and I'm also very concerned that you didn't test it yet, and that there may be several subtle regressions we wouldn't pick up until it

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Port koan from virtinst to virt-install command

2012-02-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Cole Robinson wrote: On 02/06/2012 08:12 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: Hi again Cole! Hmm … yes, I remember this discussion from years ago :) First comments are that this is both a decent new approach (using the CLI versus XML), and I'm also

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Port koan from virtinst to virt-install command

2012-02-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
Cole -- What's the workaround to auto-start Xen PV's? (or is there not a way?) Seems like we could just implement this however needed (if xenpv… do this instead…), if virtinstall won't do it for us. --Michael On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 10:55 AM, André Gemünd wrote: Hi, -

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Port koan from virtinst to virt-install command

2012-02-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Cole Robinson wrote: On 02/06/2012 10:58 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: Cole -- What's the workaround to auto-start Xen PV's? (or is there not a way?) Seems like we could just implement this however needed (if xenpv… do this instead

Re: Can this mailing list have a Subject line prefix?

2012-02-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
Just filter by list-id? --Michael On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jerome Yanga wrote: Can this mailing list have a Subject line prefix like “[cobbler]” so that I may be able organize by mail? jerome ___ cobbler mailing list

Re: Can this mailing list have a Subject line prefix?

2012-02-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
, Stuart Sears wrote: I don't think gmail can do that (at least not manually) - you appear to use it, so please feel free to correct me on that. the 'to' address would work, though, surely? Stuart On 06/02/12 17:44, Michael DeHaan wrote: Just filter by list-id? --Michael

Re: [cobbler-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Port koan from virtinst to virt-install command

2012-02-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Cole Robinson wrote: On 02/06/2012 12:34 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote: On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Cole Robinson wrote: On 02/06/2012 10:58 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: Cole -- What's the workaround to auto-start Xen PV's

Re: Some questions regarding extension of cobbler suse snippets/templates

2012-02-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
Anything for SuSE's default sample.xml should first strive for parity with the Red Hat example -- ideally it should set up networking, have the config integration, etc. I'm not against shipping a complex example showing more but complex should not be the default. I'd like it to aim for

Re: Some questions regarding extension of cobbler suse snippets/templates

2012-02-02 Thread Michael DeHaan
that would require extra ksmeta params or whatever. Thanks! On Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Christian Horn wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 10:44:37AM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote: Anything for SuSE's default sample.xml should first strive for parity with the Red Hat example

Re: nameservers in dhcp template

2012-02-01 Thread Michael DeHaan
To look at variables available, use cobbler system dumpvars --name=foo You probably also want to look here to see how networking data structures are accessed. It's not terribly pretty, but that's just the way they are structured:

Re: nameservers in dhcp template

2012-02-01 Thread Michael DeHaan
Ah, told you wrong. Name servers is an array. On Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Eric Heydrick wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: To look at variables available, use cobbler system dumpvars

Re: managing cobbler with puppet / augeas

2012-01-31 Thread Michael DeHaan
This already exists, but you're kinda trying to do it backwards :) Provisioning happens well before configuration, and Puppet is very much about things that already exist -- so it makes sense for Cobbler to lead at first and then get out of the way. While, in provisioning, we talk about

Re: RFE

2012-01-31 Thread Michael DeHaan
Does not presently exist -- sounds reasonable. I would draw the line at configuring arbitrary apps but we already are trying to cover provisioning networking pretty well. What do others think? On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Corey Kovacs wrote: I know there are ways to do this

Re: managing cobbler with puppet / augeas

2012-01-31 Thread Michael DeHaan
Ugh, Exec tasks. Not good, and quite limited. If you're going to do it, you at *minimum* should write a provider so that you can express all the attributes you would want to express, and then, at that level, you have to use the XMLRPC API. Even then though, I think Puppet is completely the

Re: managing cobbler with puppet / augeas

2012-01-31 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Nick wrote: On 31/01/12 13:06, Michael DeHaan wrote: This already exists, but you're kinda trying to do it backwards :) Hm, I'm starting to think I must have contrarian tendancies... Provisioning happens well before configuration, and Puppet

Re: managing cobbler with puppet / augeas

2012-01-31 Thread Michael DeHaan
over it and you could easily adjust the script to repopulate cobbler everytime someone commits a change to the config. Regards On 31 January 2012 14:54, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Nick

Re: managing cobbler with puppet / augeas

2012-01-31 Thread Michael DeHaan
the config file for things like sane ip addresses, duplicate entries etc. Regards On 31 January 2012 16:20, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: Yeah, that could work, but it's kind of ironic too -- Many people consider Cobbler to be a lightweight

Re: managing cobbler with puppet / augeas

2012-01-31 Thread Michael DeHaan
Well and good, but now imagine a tornado comes and wipes all three away. Now you need to reconstitute your network, and you need to start with your Cobbler server, because you're about to kickstart a whole bunch of machines. You have to install the OS manually on that server, but then

Re: Side issue: Subversion support ? Re: managing cobbler with puppet / augeas

2012-01-31 Thread Michael DeHaan
Am I correct in that the mods should be able to live in cobbler/modules/scm_track.py ? Yes. The scm_track_mode setting in settings may not be sufficient to express SVN auth for a non-local repo, in which case you might need to add new settings for something like scm_track_user and

Re: Updating Management classes via XMLRPC

2012-01-30 Thread Michael DeHaan
The key is named mgmt_classes not mgmtclass. Looks like you've kind of re-implemented /usr/bin/cobbler-register, but more with the point of modifying the system if it changes. Be careful putting the cobbler password out on all of your nodes, as it will allow modification of the database. On

Re: cobbler xmlrpc subnet/netmask issue

2012-01-27 Thread Michael DeHaan
, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: This was renamed to net mask in a previous version of the app. Looking at the code (item_system.py) if not self.interfaces.has_key(name

Re: cobbler xmlrpc subnet/netmask issue

2012-01-27 Thread Michael DeHaan
does the list think of this RFE? - make `cobbler check` complain about .rpmnew files From: cobbler-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:29 AM To: cobbler mailing list

Re: About cobbler

2012-01-21 Thread Michael DeHaan
directories, but didn't know the structure cobbler uses. Thanks for the fast response, Javier Domingo 2012/1/21 Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) Sorry you have been having problems. Cobbler was originally developed to support Fedora, Red

Re: distro add not working

2012-01-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
Maybe asking for too much here :-) but It would be great if the files and directories managed by cobbler were documented somewhere, so that cobbler newbies can get a better idea. They are https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/File%20System%20Information -- siddharth.

Re: About cobbler

2012-01-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
Sorry you have been having problems. Cobbler was originally developed to support Fedora, Red Hat, and CentOS -- and SLES came along later. Both are pretty simple. Debian/Ubuntu support is more recent but not exactly that old either. Previously it was added and then removed because various

Re: Some questions regarding extension of cobbler suse snippets/templates

2012-01-20 Thread Michael DeHaan
Also; Personally i think it's better to include as much useable autoyast snippets/stuff in Cobbler even if they're not implemented yet for RHEL. In my opinion the included stuff should be a starting point for users, not an out-of-the-box-one-size-fits-all solution. A base config

Re: issue with file

2012-01-18 Thread Michael DeHaan
It probably failed to load the new way and that is not the true error but an error in failing the old way (pre catalog serializer, there was 1 file per object type, not .d directories). Debug further? We should prob disable the fallback behavior. -- Michael On Jan 18, 2012, at 3:37 AM, Lassi

Re: issue with file

2012-01-18 Thread Michael DeHaan
required, but that's just a stupid user error. -Lassi On 2012-01-18 14:58, Michael DeHaan wrote: It probably failed to load the new way and that is not the true error but an error in failing the old way (pre catalog serializer, there was 1 file per object type, not .d directories). Debug

Re: distro add not working

2012-01-18 Thread Michael DeHaan
# ls /var/www/cobbler/images/CentOS-6.2-x86_64/initrd.img ls: /var/www/cobbler/images/CentOS-6.2-x86_64/initrd.img: No such file or directory I even tried placing these files there manually when i was doing a 'distro add', but 'cobbler sync' seems to delete them from there!

Re: Self introduction and Power management improvements

2012-01-18 Thread Michael DeHaan
Nothing but normal. I wasn't aware of cobbler before looking at provisioning. So, if you've never played with uninterruptible power supplies at least, it's quite logic that you don't know NUT ;-) Well, never really had to configure the ones I've used… Do you plan a hard

Re: httpd does not appear to be running and proxying cobbler

2012-01-17 Thread Michael DeHaan
So that message is about cobblerd (XMLRPC -- required for the client) and not cobbler web... it can also be having SELinux connection issues. (httpd_can_netwrok_connect, etc).Try temporarily disabling SELinux and see if resolves itself. The http_port setting does not mean what you expect it

Re: Installing Windows...

2012-01-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
IMHO, it doesn't make sense just to store the UUID as a system parameter/variable unless there's also some decent integration with the WDS that does something with it. Otherwise, it's just becoming a database (which feels like something you'd stick in… maybe --ksmeta?) --Michael -- Michael

Re: Automated network installation without access to main dhcp server?

2012-01-12 Thread Michael DeHaan
Well, I don't know, like I said my knowledge is poor. But from the ingenuous side, it makes sense that both DHCP servers answer: the official one to give the IP address, and the new, private one, to only provide the boot information. Besides, I don't know how to make sure a DHCP server

Re: Installing Windows...

2012-01-12 Thread Michael DeHaan
RIS integration in Cobbler never really happened for various reasons, in particular it seemed Microsoft was moving away from it and (Windows) distro support was inconsistent. On Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Will McDonald wrote: You might also want to have a look into RIS for Linux

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread Michael DeHaan
File system info -- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/File%20System%20Information You should be fine.Backing up /var/lib/cobbler is smart though, and pay attention to any .rpmnew files created. --Michael On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:41 AM, jehan procaccia wrote: OK, I got

Re: Automated network installation without access to main dhcp server?

2012-01-11 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:11 PM, al...@geophysik.uni-muenchen.de wrote: Hello. I am in charge of ~50 GNU/Linux stations but I am not a real computer guy and my general knowledge about the various issues related to network installations (PXE, dhcp, tftp, etc.) is very poor,

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread Michael DeHaan
-r--r-- 1 root root 3266 Jan 11 16:10 /etc/cobbler/modules.conf.rpmnew could this be related ? thanks. Le 11/01/2012 16:44, Michael DeHaan a écrit : File system info -- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/File%20System%20Information You should be fine

Re: Some questions regarding extension of cobbler suse snippets/templates

2012-01-10 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Christian Horn wrote: Hi cobbler-devel, there are some suse sles related things that could make sense to be included directly in cobbler. These pieces are currently here: https//fluxcoil.net/doku.php/cobbler/sles

Re: How does one set up dnsmasq/DHCP to play nice with Windows DNS/DHCP

2012-01-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
Also (though this really isn't quite as useful except in smaller home-lab sort of cases, I think), you can configure ISC dhcpd to listen on only one interface. Another option is to get the main DHCP admins to set next-server and filename for your subnet to point at Cobbler so you don't have

Re: cobbler bootiso ontimeout option

2012-01-03 Thread Michael DeHaan
this. Cheers, Simon On Fri 30/12/11 4:25 PM , Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: Ah, you said ontimeout? Try editing the templates in /etc/cobbler… the local part is in that template, not the cobbler source, so you can change

Re: cobbler bootiso ontimeout option

2011-12-30 Thread Michael DeHaan
This feature already exists.Create a system named default: cobbler system add --name=default --profile=foo PXE also works by IP, so it at least used to work that you could create a system ip in CIDR notation to get the same thing for just a part of your network: cobbler system add

Re: SELinux on Scientific Linux 6.x

2011-12-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
Cobbler check used to tell you all you needed on EL 5, from recent checking it appears to be good enough for all but maybe the webui on EL 6. The instructions on F 15 and 16 however appear to be quite different though so we need to figure out if that is just a doc item and we make check stop

Re: can't update profile when it's updated by API

2011-12-28 Thread Michael DeHaan
Don't use the python lib, use the xmlrpc ... The python lib is for cobbler's internal use and can only be used by the daemon. Koan and the webapp both show xmlrpc examples. -- Michael On Dec 28, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Shuichi Ihara iha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm updating the profile in

running from Django manage.py runserver also a Apache port conflict problem

2011-12-26 Thread Michael DeHaan
Trying to get my from-source environment all happy again. Went fine with cobbler, not so fine with cobbler-webui. CentOS 6.2: make webtest yum install python-netaddr python-cheetah PyYAML mod_wsgi python-simplejson Django mod_ssl setenforce 0 /sbin/service iptables stop

Re: Need everyone helping out with the bug queue

2011-12-25 Thread Michael DeHaan
. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 25, 2011, at 4:21, Jörgen Maas jorgen.m...@gmail.com (mailto:jorgen.m...@gmail.com) wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: (3) Fix bugs and send in pull requests

Need everyone helping out with the bug queue

2011-12-24 Thread Michael DeHaan
Hi folks, So while I was in the process of making comments on Trac tickets about the github move, I noticed there were a large amount of tickets that have been left open for a rather large amount of time -- several hundred, many open for over a year. This is bad and will ultimately destroy

Need everyone helping out with the bug queue

2011-12-24 Thread Michael DeHaan
Hi folks, So while I was in the process of making comments on Trac tickets about the github move, I noticed there were a large amount of tickets that have been left open for a rather large amount of time -- several hundred, many open for over a year. This is bad and will ultimately destroy

Debian follow-up -- still need info about development environment usage

2011-12-24 Thread Michael DeHaan
Got some info from the Ubuntu team a few weeks ago. Per-them, all packaging is done in the upstream Debian package, and didn't get much help beyond that. In order to make this really easy to test on as a development platform, I think we need (A) some better Wiki docs about how to do

Re: Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

2011-12-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
Thanks, totally agree. I was thinking of breaking things up into subpages. We might as well just make all these pages link directly from User Docs and Start Here may eventually go away or just become a subhead. The Wiki does document cobbler import … and there are examples at the bottom in

Re: Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

2011-12-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
Write a simple scraper? Yeah, if it had a link back to the Wiki at the bottom of each page or something, that would rock. I don't want to source the Wiki source in the git repo though, because the Wiki is much easier for people to edit on the fly. Re: the idea of a better welcome page, the

Re: Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

2011-12-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
always kind of thought this should be a competition among people on the list -- at least for a basic idea.Many of us can draw. mspaint level ideas are ok :) On Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Greg Swift wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 09:43, Michael DeHaan michael.deh

Re: Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

2011-12-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
with a competition, but i had a hard enough time getting interest in the process the first time around. Maybe a second try will be better? -greg On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:03, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com) wrote: Yeah, not a fan

Re: Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

2011-12-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
(even Capistrano, etc), just don't need something that heavy. --Michael On Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:57 AM, David Lee wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: Thanks, totally agree. [...] Thanks. Glad to that, as a newbie to cobbler, I'm getting this more-or-less right

Re: [PATCH] suse distro import fix

2011-12-22 Thread Michael DeHaan
Thanks very much … can you send a github pull request for this?This saves us a few steps. ( http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/ ) -- Michael On Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Uwe Gansert wrote: Hi, when importing a SUSE distro, we need to set a kernel parameter

Re: cobbler documentation

2011-12-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
Yep, I've been thinking about this myself. I'm pretty much going to move the manage content to the Wiki and make the manage not much more than a hyperlink. That way all the documentation is in one place and we don't have multiple places to maintain things. If it's not on the Wiki, it

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael DeHaan
david@ecmwf.int wrote: Michael DeHaan wrote: [...] This reads a bit negatively, as nobody's failing to think here.   Cobbler covers a wide variety of audiences.   There are people using it in home labs, up to systems with 50k+ nodes in distributed data centers all over the world.   A lot

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael DeHaan
A page named Rescue mode is more appropriate than a generic catch-all. What's a hint? What's not? Etc. -- Michael On Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:52 AM, David Lee wrote: David Lee wrote: [...] 3. I still think there's a lack in the documentation. So I intend to try to document

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-15 Thread Michael DeHaan
Could those voting against the proposed --rescue-mode=true provide a working, and tested, recipe of the steps to achieve this, please? Rescue mode works independent of approach A or B, it's a distribution feature, not a Cobbler feature. The how it works in Cobbler's interface is different

Re: Issues starting cobblerd after an upgrade to 2.2.1-1.el5

2011-12-15 Thread Michael DeHaan
change config.py temporarily on line 266, so we can see the actual exception. It probably means that there's some junk in one of your configuration files, but probably not something python2.4 specific at all. It is probably wrong for Cobbler to be hiding the original traceback from you.

Re: replication and RPM repos

2011-12-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
Not to sound as a broken record, but if you're still having an issue, we've moved bug databases, so it's going to get lost in the shuffle. Can you make a copy of this on the new bug tracker github.com/cobbler/cobbler? (I'm planning to attack the bug queue over the holidays, unless someone beats

Re: Feature Request / Minor Bug Grumble: Web Interface: Profile Edit Page

2011-12-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
Please file a ticket at github.com/cobbler/cobbler if you want this to be tracked. -- Michael On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Dan White wrote: I would like the Repos list on the profile editing page to be wider or width-adjustable. The names of most of my repos are wider than

Re: importing an iso

2011-12-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Perhaps try this? http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man8/orchestra-import-isos.8.html -- Michael On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Kelly Goedert wrote: Hi, I installed ubuntu orchestra server, and a pxe server, with which I can make a server installation through

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2011-12-13 Thread Michael DeHaan
Will take a look, but make sure you file a ticket here: http://github.com/cobbler/cobbler Without getting too deep into code -- The exception isn't trying anything related to ESX, it's that distro was null.That's what needs to be fixed :) -- Michael On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at

Re: PXE boot a (DOS) Live CD

2011-12-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
You can't use Cobbler import with anything other than Linux distributions. It's just a shortcut around cobbler distro add and cobbler profile add for the most part, which is not what you want here. You will need to rm -rf that directory inside ks_mirror (because it's not needed at all) and

Re: PXE boot a (DOS) Live CD

2011-12-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
This is Trac #539, the command line has a very simple bug though it looks like you can add it in the web interface. -- Michael On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Alan McKay wrote: Hmmm, I do not have a memdisk type - but I do have an ISO type of image - can I not just use that?

Re: PXE boot a (DOS) Live CD

2011-12-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
the thing, i.e. from their support or whatever, and then perhaps we can figure out if it's workable. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com wrote: This is Trac #539, the command line has

Re: PXE boot a (DOS) Live CD

2011-12-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
variable is missing the value, that's it). You can ignore all of the PXE setup steps, as Cobbler would do them for you. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com wrote: It's DOS with extra

Re: removing a phantom image

2011-12-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
Looks like the error message is flawed and it may be trying to tell you that a system still references the image, or it somehow allowed you to delete the image without checking to see if something referenced it. Please file a bug on this. You may have to manually delete the debug laptop file

Re: Adding to the Wiki (was: DOS Live CD)

2011-12-07 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Alan McKay wrote: Yup, we're golden Jerry! So how would you like me to stick it into the wiki? I would suggest maybe a page for the Images feature and then a sub-heading for each type of image - I will add something for memdisk with this one

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
in the rescue kickstart, and it is also immediately exposes the capabilities to those who didn't know it was there. https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/cobbler/modules/manage_import_redhat.py -- Michael DeHaan Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Tuesday

Re: PXE boot a (DOS) Live CD

2011-12-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
BTW, if you update the Wiki, update the one on github.com/cobbler/cobbler … the Fedora hosted one is discontinued. -- Michael On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Mann, Owen wrote: PXE is just DHCP TFTP set up a certain way, as far as the server side. The PXE bootloader and MEMDISK

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