[CentOS-docs] FOG on CentOS Wiki contribution suggestion?
R P Herrold
herrold at owlriver.com
Mon May 2 19:05:06 EDT 2011
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Am 29.04.11 18:32, schrieb Alex Goffe:
>> Ok, changes made! If you could move it that would be great.
>
> Okay, done. Could you please explain in the document
> <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Fog> why you are truning off iptables?
My thought, reading the article was: why are binaries being
installed outside of the packaging system? Why is an
_interactive_ isntallation AND the configuration being
performed inside the install (contrary to good RPM practice)?
This line was particularly troubling:
> FOG now has everything it needs to setup your server, but
> please understand that this script will overwrite any
> setting you may have setup for services like DHCP, apache,
> pxe, tftp, and NFS.
and appears to simply be a untested 'lift' with some edits of
a generic install document:
> This script should be run by the root user on Fedora, or
> with sudo on Ubuntu.
And the instructions as shown are not from a root level
account, and cannot work as shown with the shell defaults
CentOS ships:
> $ service iptables stop
> $ service ip6tables stop
> $ chkconfig iptables off
> $ chkconfig ip6tables off
Last time I looked this is a wiki for the CentOS project ...
If people want to write about pet projects, that is fine ...
elsewhere --- but general and indeed poor sysadmin practice
under the upstream/RPM approach, does not belong in the CentOS
wiki unless a CentOS project related issue is being addressed
-- Russ herrold
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