On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:50 AM, <khan_don(a)emc.com> wrote:
Hello,
Is anyone working on or has any snippets for automatic install and
configuraiton of RHEL5 kdump/kexec. If not then I'll probably work on
something like that. Thanks.
This shouldn't require a snippet to configure kdump. In your kickstart
template make sure to add the kexec-tools package to your %packages
section. In the cobbler distro or profile for your RHEL5 boxes make
sure to add "crashkernel=128M@16M" to the kopts. Then make sure to add
a line such as "services --enabled kdump" to start it up on boot.
If you want to be real fancy you could templatize /etc/sysconfig/kdump
and throw it down with the --template-files. Some people seem
surprised when you assign things like templates on a per profile
basis, but it works like a champ if done properly. Cobbler is a real
lifesaver.
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Jeff Schroeder
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