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- From: xx123yyy@caravan.ksu.ksu.edu (Brian Gregory Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: Post OS installations: what do YOU do?
- Date: 20 Aug 1992 14:33:59 -0500
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- Message-ID: <170s37INN89t@caravan.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <1992Aug15.222958.27644@edsi.plexus.COM> <1992Aug17.171055.2597@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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- system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug15.222958.27644@edsi.plexus.COM> chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi) writes:
- >>Over the last couple of years I have evolved a script to take care of a
- >>machine once the OS and patches have been installed. It started out
- >>with a few site specific links and has grown to include patches to rc
-
- >This one also started the same way, and is augmented by ~20 pages
- >of nroff'ed notes on stuff I must do manually after an install.
-
- Here I thought I was the only one who spent the time scripting/debugging sys-
- admin "utilities". As a student here at KSU, I've spent the last 3 years making
- mid semester life easier by investing time during the summer writing sys-admin
- utilities. I finally got so many of them that I created a menu based system
- (kind of like HP's SAM or IBM's SMIT) called SSU. Now that everyone is buying
- SUNs, I am sssllloowwly converting SSU to SUNOS.
-
- One nifty thing about SSU is its ability to configure for a given system. Each
- system has a configuration file which notes whether it is discless, has user
- files and so on. This information is used to set a number of pre defined
- environmental variables before calling a configuration/installation script. The
- config/insall script (I currently use the C-shell) then may use the environment
- variables to check for os type (10.2 or 10.3), version of X windows ..... it
- makes the scripting more portable - and sometimes, more of a pain!
-
- I can also use the configuration files to dump important information such as
- CPU serial number, IP address, node ID and other items.
-
- Happy coding///scripting
-
-
- Brian G. Howard
- brian@grace.ecc.ksu.edu
- xx123yyy@matt.ksu.edu
-