Re: auto-configure NTP in Kickstart?

[Jarle Bjørgeengen <jarle bjorgeengen net>]

On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:48 , Cameron Mura wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know how to setup NTP info via kickstart ?  More  
> specifically, I'd like to do the following on Fedora 10 systems via  
> the kickstart mechanism:
>
> 1) Specify NTP servers (e.g., ntp1.virginia.edu,  
> ntp2.virginia.edu, ...)

Just use

cat << EOF > /etc/ntp.conf
whatever
you
want
to be in
ntp.conf
EOF

in your %post section

> 2) Enable / activate NTP -- I.e., What one would get by running  
> 'system-config-time' and clicking the "Enable Network Time Protocol"  
> box.

chkconfig ntp on

in the %post

I also recommend man chkconfig

> I know this stuff can set manually, post-installation, via the  
> system-config-time route, and that it also can be setup immediately  
> after a kickstart-based install by setting "firstboot --enable" to  
> run the Setup Agent upon first reboot (...and then manually entering  
> the info at that screen.)   But seems as though this could be done  
> at the kickstart level ??
>
> I couldn't find anything on ntp-in-kickstart in the Anaconda  
> Kickstart reference at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart 
>  or by searching around the web.  I naively did the following in a  
> ks file to modify ntp.conf, but that doesn't actually 'enable' ntp  
> on the system:
> > cat >> /etc/ntp.conf <<EOF_ntpconfig
> > server ntp1.virginia.edu dynamic
> > server ntp2.virginia.edu dynamic
> > server ntp3.virginia.edu dynamic
> > EOF_ntpconfig

Ah, so you have already the answer to Q1 ;-)

>

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