auto-configure NTP in Kickstart?

[Bryan Schneiders]

Our machines get NTP server information from DHCP, so I just comment out the default servers in the post section with sed:

sed -i.orig -e "s/\(server [0-9].fedora.pool.ntp.org dynamic\)/#\1/" /etc/ntp.conf

I believe you can enable ntp with the "services" command in the top of the kickstart file.

services --enabled=ntpd

Bryan Schneiders

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, ...)
> 
> 2) Enable / activate NTP -- I.e., What one would get by running 
> 'system-config-time' and clicking the "Enable Network Time Protocol" box.
> 
> 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
> Any tips (or pointers to possible advice) would be most sincerely 
> appreciated...
> 
> Cameron
> 
> 
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