I tried the above suggestion and it did not have the desired effect. Everything gets logged to log file. I was hoping for a way to log to the file and also still see it on the screen also.

Have you tried something like this:

%post ( do your stuff here ) 2>&1 | tee post-install.log

Jerry Geis wrote:

Jerry Geis wrote:

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Is there a way in the %post section of install to continue to have the VT3 logging but also log that to a file. Somehow using tee perhaps?

I have found --log=/tmp/post-install.log but then that shows nothing on VT3. I would like to have both if possible. Log to VT and a file.

THanks,

Jerry

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Kickstart in RHEL5/CentOS 5 you can do this

%post ( do your stuff here ) 1>/root/kickstart-post-install.log 2>&1

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Not sure if older versions of RHEL/CentOS support that.

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nate

Nate,

I tried the above suggestion and it did not have the desired effect. Everything gets logged to log file. I was hoping for a way to log to the file and also still see it on the screen also.

Is there a way to do that?

Jerry

It looks like this: %post ( do your stuff here ) 2>&1 | tee /root/post-install.log

works except for 1 item. I do a yum udpate in the post section and NONE of the data that gets printed during the yum update was logged. Everything else was logged just fine.

Any idea there?

Jerry