I am having a bit of trouble setting up cobbler on this machine.
cobbler check points out a few things to correct:
[root@VIRTCENT04:~]#cobbler check The following are potential configuration items that you may want to fix:
1 : you need to set some SELinux content rules to ensure cobbler serves content correctly in your SELinux environment, run the following: /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/tftpboot/.*" && /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/var/www/cobbler/images/.*" 2 : you need to set some SELinux rules if you want to use cobbler-web (an optional package), run the following: /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t "/var/lib/cobbler/webui_sessions/.*" 3 : 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. Files in this directory, should you want to support all architectures, should include pxelinux.0, menu.c32, elilo.efi, and yaboot. The 'cobbler get-loaders' command is the easiest way to resolve these requirements. 4 : since iptables may be running, ensure 69, 80, and 25151 are unblocked 5 : debmirror package is not installed, it will be required to manage debian deployments and repositories 6 : The default password used by the sample templates for newly installed machines (default_password_crypted in /etc/cobbler/settings) is still set to 'cobbler' and should be changed, try: "openssl passwd -1 -salt 'random-phrase-here' 'your-password-here'" to generate new one
Restart cobblerd and then run 'cobbler sync' to apply changes.
I try to apply the first suggestion:
[root@VIRTCENT04:~]#/usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/tftpboot/.*" && /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/var/www/cobbler/images/.*" /usr/sbin/semanage: File context for /tftpboot/.* already defined
And the system points out that the rules are already defined by semanage.
the cobbler service restarts:
[root@VIRTCENT04:~]#service cobblerd restart Stopping cobbler daemon: [ OK ] Starting cobbler daemon: [ OK ] [root@VIRTCENT04:~]#SERVING!
sync is fine
[root@VIRTCENT04:~]#cobbler sync task started: 2010-12-18_105137_sync task started (id=Sync, time=Sat Dec 18 10:51:37 2010) running pre-sync triggers cleaning trees removing: /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default removing: /tftpboot/s390x/profile_list copying bootloaders copying: /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 -> /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 copying: /usr/lib/syslinux/menu.c32 -> /tftpboot/menu.c32 copying: /boot/memtest86+-1.65 -> /tftpboot/memtest86+-1.65 copying: /usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk -> /tftpboot/memdisk copying distros copying images generating PXE configuration files rendering Rsync files generating PXE menu structure running post-sync triggers *** TASK COMPLETE ***
run cobbler check again:
[root@VIRTCENT04:~]#cobbler check The following are potential configuration items that you may want to fix:
1 : you need to set some SELinux content rules to ensure cobbler serves content correctly in your SELinux environment, run the following: /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/tftpboot/.*" && /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/var/www/cobbler/images/.*" 2 : you need to set some SELinux rules if you want to use cobbler-web (an optional package), run the following: /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t "/var/lib/cobbler/webui_sessions/.*" 3 : 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. Files in this directory, should you want to support all architectures, should include pxelinux.0, menu.c32, elilo.efi, and yaboot. The 'cobbler get-loaders' command is the easiest way to resolve these requirements. 4 : since iptables may be running, ensure 69, 80, and 25151 are unblocked 5 : debmirror package is not installed, it will be required to manage debian deployments and repositories 6 : The default password used by the sample templates for newly installed machines (default_password_crypted in /etc/cobbler/settings) is still set to 'cobbler' and should be changed, try: "openssl passwd -1 -salt 'random-phrase-here' 'your-password-here'" to generate new one
Restart cobblerd and then run 'cobbler sync' to apply changes.
same thing... what can I do to get beyond this infinite loop?