On Fri, October 9, 2015 10:17 am, david wrote:
Folks
I have several remotely-located servers, donated by folks not all of whom are computer geeks, let-alone Linux aware. In earlier versions of Centos, I directed them to perform a minimal NetInstall (not too difficult to direct over the phone), and then issue two commands after the first boot. One was a 'curl' to download a script of mine, and the second was a dot-command to run it. A few reboots followed in close succession, and I directed them to logon as root, and issue a simple dot-command. The personal intervention ended usually within an hour, since I had ssh access to the system and root, and could complete the installation and tailoring completely remotely. I would only need their intervention in the case of problems. In many cases, I've not needed to invoke that help for a year or more.
I probably have missed the whole discussion, sorry if it is repetition or irrelevant.
I usually do kickstart install pointing to my kickstart file that has everything necessary in it, including (as post install scripts) adding variety of things that are not directly available in CentOS distribution (such as custom TeX stiles for Journals our folks publish in, printers configuration...). All works well, including for CentOS 7; first boot after kickstart install gets you into ready to use box (lass particular user accounts). To avoid "firstboot" stuff, - and license I believe is part of it - I have the following in my kickstart file:
# Run the Setup Agent on first boot #firstboot --enable firstboot --disable
This scheme worked well until I decided to add support of graphical desktops on the systems in Centos 7, as I had in Centos 6. Once those packages were installed, further non-intuitive on-site intervention was required at next reboot to approve licenses. Remote ssh logins didn't work until that was done.
If you mean X11 stuff, this is what I always did (and keep doing in CentOS 7). Or are these licenses other than GNU license (to use system composed almost solely of GNU licensed parts)?
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++