[CentOS] 1stboot stuff?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 18:40:57 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:29 PM, David Both
<dboth at millennium-technology.com> wrote:
> Nothing breaks. Nothing stops working. I do this all the time. I almost never
> login to a local console after the initial reboot of a newly installed system,
> either Fedora or CentOS.
>
> In fact I have a post-install script that turns off the firstboot service and
> terminates it if it is already running - that in addition to many other
> customization tasks that I perform on every Linux box I install. You could then
> uninstall the firstboot RPM if you choose.

Thanks - if for some reason the network subsequently breaks and the
remote operators have to revive it from the console I'd rather not
have them think missing that step might have been the problem with the
box.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com



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