On 07/02/2009 01:17 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
On Thu Jul  2 15:51:30 UTC 2009 Michael DeHaan wrote:
  
Cobbler writes DHCP and DNS management via templates in /etc/cobbler,
which /should/ be documented on the Wiki.
    

Ok, I merged the file /etc/cobbler/dnsmasq.template with my previous
system config and now it works like a champ and automatically install
my guest in less than 3 minutes!
So if I have to do changes to my overall dnsmasq I can modify the
template and run a "cobbler sync".
One question: do I have to leave the system dnsmasq in chkconfig on or
does cobbler need to start it automatically during the cobblerd
service startup and so I have to leave dnsmasq off?

  
You need to leave it in chkconfig, as cobbler will only do a service restart when sync is run.

And also, as in /etc/cobbler directory there is the tftp template too,
is it a must to have tftp provided by xinetd or can I use tftp
functionality provided by dnsmasq itself?
the "cobbler check" command issues the warning
  

What cobbler version are you running?   No, we do not auto-generate tftp configs... though there was
an artifact of that left over from some uncompleted development, it is not something that is used.
#0: change 'disable' to 'no' in /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

as I'm not enabling tftpd via xinetd....

  

Yes, you need to change this one yourself.

(Apparently chkconfig can do it for you if you don't want to edit the file)