idea for faimond

2004-10-26 Thread Holger Schurig
Currently, faimond just display things that it got, once could also do netcat -p 4711 -l instead. However, we could add some little protocol into the stream to do this: * log start/stops of tasks as now * transfer the *.log files to the server, without unsafe protocols like rsh * do the chr

Duplicated FAI-Classes ?

2004-10-26 Thread Holger Schurig
During installation, my /tmp/fai/FAI_CLASSES looks like: DEFAULT LINUX I386 MNWH PART_ONE BOOT_MBR BOOT_LILO NET_BASE MNWH PART_ONE BOOT_MBR BOOT_LILO NET_BASE mnwh LAST how does this come? My 02alias is the usual one: uname -s | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' [ -x "`which dpkg`" ] && dpkg --prin

Re: Duplicated FAI-Classes ?

2004-10-26 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: > During installation, my /tmp/fai/FAI_CLASSES looks like: > > DEFAULT > LINUX > I386 > MNWH > PART_ONE > BOOT_MBR > BOOT_LILO > NET_BASE > MNWH > PART_ONE > BOOT_MBR > BOOT_LILO > NET_BASE > mnwh > LAST > > > how does this come? M

bug in /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Fai.pm

2004-10-26 Thread Holger Schurig
When you look at this excerpt ... sub read_all_info () { read_disk_info; read_memory_info; read_kernel_messages; } ... and you know perl, then you would realize that you should rewrite this to sub read_all_info () { read_disk_info(); read_memory_info(); read_kernel_messages(); } to

distributing package updates

2004-10-26 Thread John Paul Lorenti
This is a "What happens after FAI?" question. I hope you don't find it too off topic. How do those of you that installed a sizable number of Debian boxes manage your package updates? I'm trying to figure out how to get around apt-get needing you to sit there and answer the same questions f

Re: distributing package updates

2004-10-26 Thread Holger Schurig
> How do those of you that installed a sizable number of Debian boxes > manage your package updates? I'm trying to figure out how to get around > apt-get needing you to sit there and answer the same questions for each > package on each box in a group of identically configured machines. I'm not