thanks Lissa that explains exactly what I was missing. -Ben
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Lissa Valletta <[email protected]> wrote: > Take a look at the example in this doc: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Sync-ing_Config_Files_to_Nodes > > The way EXECUTE works, is it will execute postinstall.post, If > postinstall file is sync'd to the node. The idea is you would want to > sync a configuration file to the node and then run a script to restart the > application using that configuration file. But you would only want to do > it, if the file changed. Note the names of the files are tied together. > The <filename> to sync and the <filename>.post to execute. > > So your synclist should have looked like: > > /root/postinstall -> /root/postinstall > EXECUTE: > /root/postinstall.post > > Now to just generally run scripts after install, you can use the > postscripts table and add your own scripts. The procedure for doing this > is in the following doc: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Postscripts_and_Prescripts > > > Lissa K. Valletta > 2-3/T12 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > > > From: Ben De Luca <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 11/22/2011 04:18 AM > Subject: [xcat-user] new user, trouble with synclists > > > > Hi All, > Im new to xcat as of last week, and its been a particularily > impresive/easy trip so far, but now im stuck. > > > I am using a synclist to configure my machines post install, but I > cant get the EXECUTE functionality to work. My synclist looks like > this, the file is synced. > > > /root/postinstall.post -> /root/postinstall.post > EXECUTE: > /root/postinstall.post > > postinstall.post looks like. > > #!/bin/sh > echo please work > /root/itworked.txt > > > > But I can never get the itworked file to appear, and I am a little > stuck on where to go next. > > Is this the way to run a script after install? Should I be doing it > some other way? > Is this expected to work? > is there a log of whats happening that I may be able to check on the > machine to see what went wrong? > > > > -bd > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
