Paul Company wrote: have you restarted since making that change? kickstarts should have $kickstart_done # End final steps at the end - FWIW it works for me !

Paul Company wrote: dont think so - if you do a cobbler status do the installs show as finished?

build_reporting_enabled: 1 build_reporting_sender: "root(a)mydomain.com" build_reporting_email: [ 'paul(a)mydomain.com' ] build_reporting_smtp_server: "mail.mydomain.com" build_reporting_subject: "Cobbler Finished Installing a Client" I changed my real domain to "mydomain.com" to protect the innocent. Again, when I test things manually using these values, it works fine. # telnet mail.mydomain.com 25 HELO cobbler.mydomain.com MAIL FROM root(a)mydomain.com RCPT TO paul(a)mydomain.com DATA Subject: Cobbler Finished Installing a Client test . This works just fine. Paul

/var/log/maillog is empty. cobbler must not be usind sendmail, because mail is being logged, because if I run # sendmail -C /etc/mail/sendmail.cf -t -v paul(a)mydomain.com < /etc/motd Then, # cat /var/log/maillog Aug 4 15:17:07 cobbler sendmail[22837]: n74MH7v0022837: from=root, size=682, class=0, nrcpts=1 , msgid=&lt;200908042217.n74MH7v0022837(a)cobbler.mydomain.com&gt;, relay=root@localhost Aug 4 15:17:07 cobbler1 sendmail[22837]: STARTTLS=client, relay=mail.mydomain.com., vers ion=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=AES256-SHA, bits=256/256 Aug 4 15:17:07 cobbler sendmail[22837]: n74MH7v0022837: to=paul(a)mydomain.com, ctla ddr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30682, relay=mail.mydomain.com. [10.230.6.21], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK id=1MYSJf-0007Xw-G3)

On 08/04/2009 06:24 PM, Paul Company wrote: reading the code, here are some relevant snippets... if they don't spark anything, I'm not sure, it's probably a mail setup thing. Jeff S may also be able to shed some light on things ... this is based on a refactoring of his original script. Check /var/log/cobbler/cobblerd.log to see if there is anything interesting there. ======== If disabled it won't run ======== # go no further if this feature is turned off if not str(settings.build_reporting_enabled).lower() in [ "1", "yes", "y", "true"]: print "not enabled" return 0 ======== It works on systems and profiles ======== if objtype == "system": target = api.find_system(name) else: target = api.find_profile(name) ======== If the name isn't right it will stop ======== # collapse the object down to a rendered datastructure target = utils.blender(api, False, target) if target == {}: raise CX("failure looking up target") ======== this is the address it sends to ======== to_addr = settings.build_reporting_email if to_addr == "": return 0

Jeff Schroeder wrote: I am running into the same issue: == settings == # Email out a report when cobbler finishes installing a system. # enabled: set to 1 to turn this feature on # sender: optional # email: which addresses to email # smtp_server: used to specify another server for an MTA # subject: use the default subject unless overridden build_reporting_enabled: 1 build_reporting_sender: "cobbler@dmain" build_reporting_email: [ &quot;yacketrj(a)potsdam.edu&quot; ] build_reporting_smtp_server: "SMTP" build_reporting_subject: "Cobbler Host Build Report" === version == cobbler version cobbler 1.6.6 build date : Fri Jun 12 16:22:03 2009 Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Michael DeHaan. === ks == # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. #version=DEVEL install url --url http://some.ip lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us skipx reboot text network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6 rootpw --iscrypted MY_ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD_HERE firewall --ssh authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 selinux --disable timezone --utc America/New_York zerombr bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet" # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work clearpart --all --initlabel %include /tmp/partinfo %pre # Determine how many drives we have set $(list-harddrives) let numd=$#/2 d1=$1 d2=$3 cat << EOF > /tmp/partinfo part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=200 --ondisk=$d1 part pv.2 --size=1024 --grow --ondisk=$d1 volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=2048 #logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=var --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10240 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow EOF %end %packages --nobase acpid crontabs dos2unix eject file ftp gnupg iptables grub logrotate mailx man man-pages net-snmp nmap ntp openldap openldap-clients openssh openssh-clients openssh-server openssl passwd pciutils psacct psmisc rootfiles rpm rsync schedutils screen setarch slocate sudo symlinks tcpdump time traceroute unzip vim-enhanced vim-common vixie-cron wget which yum zlib lsof ltrace patch patchutils ncurses-devel strace bind-utils rdate dhclient stunnel telnet urw-fonts vconfig bridge-utils perl %end %pre ( wget -O /tmp/anamon "http://some.ip/cblr/aux/anamon" python /tmp/anamon --name "f11-i386" --server "some.ip" --port "80" ) 2>&1 | tee /root/pre-install.log %post ( echo "Post-Install section begins.." sleep 15 wget -O /usr/local/sbin/anamon "http://some.ip/cblr/aux/anamon" wget -O /etc/rc.d/init.d/anamon "http://some.ip/cblr/aux/anamon.init" chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/anamon /usr/local/sbin/anamon test -d /selinux && restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/anamon /usr/local/sbin/anamon chkconfig --add anamon cat << __EOT__ > /etc/sysconfig/anamon COBBLER_SERVER="some.ip" COBBLER_PORT="80" COBBLER_NAME="f11-i386" LOGFILES="/var/log/boot.log /var/log/messages /var/log/dmesg" __EOT__ echo "Post-Install section ends.." ) 2>&1 | tee /root/post-install.log Looks like I might be missing a trigger or something seeing that the built in report trigger is never fired. Thoughts?