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Today's Topics:
1. 'cobbler get-loaders' through http proxy? (David Lee)
2. clean use of cobbler/kickstart and cfengine (David Lee)
3. Re: clean use of cobbler/kickstart and cfengine (Jonathan Sabo)
4. Re: 'cobbler get-loaders' through http proxy? (J?rgen Maas)
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:18:18 +0100
From: David Lee<David.Lee(a)ecmwf.int
Subject:
'cobbler get-loaders' through http proxy?
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(I'm new to cobbler, and using v 2.0.11)
'cobbler check' is advising:
1 : some network boot-loaders are missing from /var/lib/cobbler/loaders,
you may run 'cobbler get-loaders' to download them, or, if you only want
to handle x86/x86_64 netbooting, you may ensure that you have installed
a *recent* version of the syslinux package installed and can ignore this
message entirely.
It so happens that we are, at present, entirely 'x86_64', using RHEL 5.6
and above, and all seems well. So in my case I probably don't need to
go any further at present. (Correct?)
But when, for the fun of it, I tried 'cobbler get-loaders' it appeared
to hang. I strongly suspect that this is because we need http proxying
to reach off-site, and it isn't clear whether 'cobbler get-loaders'
uses, or can use, http proxying (either by command argument or
environment variable). Have I missed something in the documentation?
Marcelo proposed patches to fix this, but within Satellite. The
Satellite team though is not supporting 'get-loaders' with our
integration of cobbler.
Marcelo - care to propose the same fix upstream to cobbler.
Cliff