Re: Disable auto updates manager on Centos

The lines
#Use NFS installation Media
nfs --server=<nfs server ip address> --dir=/export/opt/Centos67/x86_64
Are in my kickctsrt file and it works fine ??

//Ger


On 04/04/16 16:19, Brendan Minish wrote:
> Ger
>
> are you perhaps mixing up the pxeboot options with the kickctsrt file
> ?
>
> My pixeboot file looks like this (just the lines the refer to the
> kickstart install of centos with update )
>
> LABEL centos64-ks
>          KERNEL vmlinuz-c65x64
>          APPEND initrd=initrd-c65x64.img ks=ftp://192.168.0.1/kickstart/
> centos6-minimal-x86_64.cfg
>
> the ks= line tells it where to find the kickstart file
>
>
> My kickstart file looks like this
>
>
> cat /var/ftp/kickstart/centos6-minimal-x86_64.cfg
>
> #version=RHEL6
> install
> url --url=ftp://192.168.0.1//centos65/x86_64
> # system language
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> #keyboard
> keyboard uk
> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
> rootpw  --iscrypted <encrypted password goes here>
> firewall --service=ssh
> authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 --enablefingerprint
> selinux --enforcing
> timezone --utc Europe/Dublin
> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="crashkernel=auto
> rhgb quiet"
> repo --name="CentOS"  --baseurl=ftp://192.168.0.1//centos65/x86_64/ --
> cost=100
> # slipstream in updates
> repo --name="centos_updates"  --baseurl=ftp://192.168.0.1/centos/6.5/up
> dates/x86_64/ --cost=1000
>
> #reboot after install
> reboot
>
> %packages --ignoremissing
> @base
> @console-internet
> @core
> @network-tools
> @system-management-snmp
> @server-policy
> @system-admin-tools
> sgpio
> ncurses-term
> screen
> -rfkill
> -pcmciautils
> -system-config-firewall-tui
> -b43-fwcutter
> %end
>
> %post
>
> # Adding ssh key
> # You could add your ssh key here
> echo "Adding ssh key"
> mkdir -p /root/.ssh
> chmod 700 /root/.ssh
> echo '<My Public SSH key goes here>' > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
> chmod 600 /root/.ssh/authorized_keysa
> # fix up selinux context for .ssh
> restorecon -r /root/.ssh/
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
> regards
> Brendan
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 09:16 +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote:
>> Thanks Brendan
>> In my kickstart cfg I have :-
>>
>>    nfs --server=<server ip address> --dir=/export/opt/Centos67/x86_64
>>
>> //Ger
>>
>> On 02/04/16 14:08, Brendan Minish wrote:
>>> I know it's not the question you asked but..
>>>
>>> Why not include the updates in the kickstart process?
>>>
>>> In my case I locally mirror updates but assuming you have adequate
>>> bandwidth fetching them from the internet should work just as well,
>>> just adding one line to the kick-start file takes care of this
>>> E.G
>>>
>>> # slipstream in updates
>>> repo --name="centos_updates"  --baseurl=<url goes here> --cost=1000
>>>
>>> Basically what then happens is that at install time updated
>>> packages
>>> are installed instead of base image packages where available
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Brendan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 11:57 +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> Firstly, I work mostly with Debian so my Redhat/Centos  knowledge
>>>> in
>>>> lacking.
>>>> I use kicksttart to install the machines in our EDA lab.
>>>> The first thing I do after the kickstart install is complete is
>>>> run
>>>> yum upgrade.
>>>> That works fine except the while the yum upgrade is running
>>>> another
>>>> update manager starts automatically which produces a pop-up.
>>>> My question is, how can I disable this update manager?
>>>> I have CentOS 6.7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Gerard Hooton.
>>>> Senior Technical Officer
>>>> School of Engineering.
>>>> University College Cork.
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>>>> Cork.
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>>>>
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Senior Technical Officer
School of Engineering.
University College Cork.
College Road.
Cork.
Ireland.
Tel: +353 21 4902296
Mobile: +353 852813491

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