Excerpts from Michal Ludvig's message of Thu Oct 14 06:47:16 -0400 2010: > I'm installing Puppet on RHEL5 systems using KickStart but struggle with > the first boot. > > Here's my situation: > 1) kickstart installs the system, including puppet from our local repo > 2) after reboot I have to login and set the hostname and IP > 3) then run puppet, register it with the server and bring in the config > 4) configure puppet for automatic start > > I have to configure the hostname before running puppet for the first > time, otherwise it makes its certificate with a wrong name (either > 'localhost' or something supplied by dhcp). I'm aware this is not really > a Puppet question but how do you guys do this? How do you > (semi-)automatically configure the hostname before running puppet for > the first time? >
Another option is to set the certname option in puppet.conf when installing with kickstart. The certname option defaults to the hostname - however it can be set in puppet.conf: [main] certname=YOUR_UNIQUE_CERTNAME -- Mathias Gug Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
