cobbler December 2014

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Re: [cobbler] CentOS 7 install failure
by Chris Johnson 06 Sep '15

06 Sep '15

Hi, Don't know if this last post made it. I've narrowed it down to something in the network_config, pre and post SNIPPETS. I have seen bug report 1117640 however no data is missing as in that case, I've done a cobbler system getks and all the data is there as far as I can tell. I pulled all three SNIPPETs out and replaced them with the proper network kickstart line and the error about an illegal IP address string is gone. The install has other issues but that's not this problem. So it's something in the network SNIPPETs that is causing the illegal IP address string error when trying to install CentOS 7. Chris J. > Hi. > > I've probably missed something somewhere. I'd love to know what. > > I have a cobbler server (2.6.5-9.1) running on CentOS 6.5 in a VBox > (4.3.16) VM on OS X (10.9.5). Now 6.5 installs just fine this way on > my other VMs. However when trying to install C7, anaconda keeps > dumping on an illegal IP address string passed to inet_aton and that's > even using the default sample.ks kickstart. > > Has anyone managed to install CentOS 7 on a VBox VM? I'd love to know > where this error is coming from. > > Tnx. > > Chris J. > >

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Cobbler release 2.6.7
by Jörgen Maas 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

Hey all, Just in time for our last release in 2014, well at least from where i'm at (Netherlands). We have just released Cobbler 2.6.7, another minor update in the stable 2.6 branch. In this release several bugs have been fixed. Release notes: http://www.cobblerd.org/manuals/2.6.0/1/1_-_Release_Notes.html Downloads: http://www.cobblerd.org/downloads/2.6.x.html Happy new year to all Cobbler users & developers !! -- Grtz, Jörgen Maas

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limiting access on cobbler web - create systems only
by Jagga Soorma 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hey Dan, Not trying to micromanage but trying to protect the *nix sys admins that will be using this environment more extensively :) This is being setup for a small group of Windows admins that have a need to deploy some linux desktops and are not very familiar with linux cli, hense the web ui and the initiative to limit access. Thanks for the idea. Looks like jagga can copy a system if they are the owner and can edit the copy but not delete. Thanks again for your help! This will work for us. Really appreciate your suggestion. On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Jagga Soorma <jagga13(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am new to cobbler and deploying this in our production environment. > Everything is looking good so far. The one thing that I have run into > is that I have a need to allow a small set of admins access to cobbler > via the web and have them only create new systems in cobbler for some > workstations. I was able to do the following: > > modules.conf: > module = authn_pam > module = authz_ownership > > With this my local krb authenticated users can now login to the > cobbler web ui. I defined the following in users.conf: > > [users] > jagga = "" > > Now I am able to login as jagga on the cobbler web ui but have no > access. The only way I can get this user to do anything on the > systems is if I using my admin privs create a system "cobbler system > add" with the --owner=jagga tag. Once this is done then jagga can > modify this system without any issues on the web ui but still can't > create a system. I want jagga to be able to create new systems in the > web ui but not do anything with profiles/distros or server settings. > Is there something that I am missing here? Is it even possible to do > what I am trying to do here? Or should I just give jagga login privs > to the cobbler server and then via sudo allow access to create new > systems? > > Thanks in advance for your help with this.

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limiting access on cobbler web - create systems only
by Jagga Soorma 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hi Guys, I am new to cobbler and deploying this in our production environment. Everything is looking good so far. The one thing that I have run into is that I have a need to allow a small set of admins access to cobbler via the web and have them only create new systems in cobbler for some workstations. I was able to do the following: modules.conf: module = authn_pam module = authz_ownership With this my local krb authenticated users can now login to the cobbler web ui. I defined the following in users.conf: [users] jagga = "" Now I am able to login as jagga on the cobbler web ui but have no access. The only way I can get this user to do anything on the systems is if I using my admin privs create a system "cobbler system add" with the --owner=jagga tag. Once this is done then jagga can modify this system without any issues on the web ui but still can't create a system. I want jagga to be able to create new systems in the web ui but not do anything with profiles/distros or server settings. Is there something that I am missing here? Is it even possible to do what I am trying to do here? Or should I just give jagga login privs to the cobbler server and then via sudo allow access to create new systems? Thanks in advance for your help with this.

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Re: [cobbler] gpt partition
by Michael 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Just two important precisions to the readers : + DISKS=\$(list-harddrives | awk '$2 < $mindisk {next} \$1 ~ /^\/dev\// {print substr(\$1,6) ; next} {print \$1}' | sort | sed -n 1p) Be careful with the anaconda macro '*list-hardrives*' in this cheetah scripts : If you have (software) raid, it may screw up your partition scheme. So, test and validate before use those partition snippets. + The use of *efibootmgr* I mentioned above is for a kickstart used with PXE & GPXE. The PXE servers were CentOS 6.5/Cobbler 2.4.4. Anaconda installer from DVD CentOS-6.5 performs the *efiboootmgr* command by itself, and my test Workstations installs smoothly. Pay attention, do tests and validations before entering in production mode. *Michael PATRIS* Thales Alenia Space Belgium. >

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gpt partition
by Albino A. Aveleda 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Dear all, I have to use the GPT partition because my disk array is bigger than 2TB. I am using CentOS 6.5 and cobbler 2.6.3. I added the pre section in my kickstart to create a partiotion with parted command, but it didn't work. I looked for on Internet but I can't find the error. Part of my kickstart is below. What do I do wrong? ... # Disk clearpart --none part /boot --fstype="ext4" --onpart=sda1 part swap --onpart=sda2 part / --fstype="ext4" --onpart=sda3 %packages ... %end %pre parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt parted -s /dev/sda unit MB mkpart primary 1 300 parted -s /dev/sda unit MB mkpart primary 300 1024 parted -s /dev/sda unit MB mkpart primary 1024 -1 parted -s /dev/sda set 1 boot on parted -s /dev/sda set 2 swap on %end Best regards, Bino

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Cobbler import/replicate
by Newman, Stuart J. (GSFC-428.0)[HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC] 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

When I import RHEL5.11, two distros are created, RHEL5u11-x86_64 and RHEL5u11-xen-x86_64. When I try to replicate the master containing these distros, I get an error @ERROR unknown module 'distro-rhel5u11-xen-x86_64' even though that module is defined in /etc/rsyncd.conf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stuart J. Newman Engineer 4; Systems EO-1 Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Building 14, Room E252 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Office: (301) 286-5145 Mobile: (443) 878-0280 E-Mail: Stuart.J.Newman(a)nasa.gov<mailto:Stuart.J.Newman@nasa.gov> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: This communication, including any attachment, contains information that may be confidential or privileged, and is intended solely for the entity or individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at once, and you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this email, including any attachment, is intended to be a legally binding signature.

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if_gateway vs gateway
by Chris Johnson 14 Dec '14

14 Dec '14

Hi. On earlier versions of cobbler there was an if_gateway_<interface> and an appropriate switch in cobbler system add for setting it. And this did what you'd expect, it put the GATEWAY shell variable assignment in the ifcfg_<interface> file. So I took my backup serveer and put C7.0 on and the newest cobbler and started working in it. In the older 6.5 cobbler I have running, the network_config SNIPPET I believed looked at if_gateway_<interface> and did the right thing. Somehow the value got put in the ifcfg_<interface> file. The newest one I have on my backup server doesn't do this. the SNIPPET only looks at the gateway and if ifcfg_<interface> is all you have set, gripes mightily about gateway being the wrong format. Nothing gets put in ifcfg_<interface> and if gateway is set that goes very neatly into /etc/sysconfig/network. Does anyone know when this behavior changed? Thanks. Chris J.

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question about "cobbler replicate"
by Dennis Serkov 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

right now i have --distros=RHEL6* how do i add centos7/rhel7/centos6 to distro list to replicate ? I don't want to replicate rhel5 distros. Thank you in advance.

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Mention Fedora/EPEL repos
by Orion Poplawski 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

Perhaps http://www.cobblerd.org/downloads/2.6.x.html could mention that you can get cobbler directly from Fedora and Fedora EPEL? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com

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