snake-ks

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Version: 2008-03-18 (fedora - 01/12/10)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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NAME

snake-ks -- Query or modifiy a SNAKE kickstart templates

SYNOPSIS

snake-ks [options] [command] [command-options ...]

DESCRIPTION

The snake-ks utility is used to query or modify SNAKE kickstart templates. Unless specified, snake-ks will operate on a local directory of files (see man snake.conf).

command is one of:

*
list [KSSPEC]
*
add [add-options] [filename] [...]
*
remove [template] [...]
*
generate [generate-options] template [...]
*
describe [describe-options] template description
*
rename [rename-options] template new-name

Unless the --help or -h option is given, one of the above commands must be present.

GENERAL OPTIONS

The following command line options are permitted.
-h, --help
Help; display a help message and then quit.
-v, --verbose
Verbose; output more information.
-s, --server
Server; rather than query the local system, communicate with a snake-server
-p, --port
Port; Use the specified port when communicating with the snake-server (defaults to 2903).

KSSPEC SYNTAX

When querying available templates, snake-ks list offers several filters to limit your results. Available filters include:
*
name
*
desc

ADD OPTIONS

The following add command line options are permitted.
-n, --name
Name; specify a name for the kickstart template. This defaults to the basename of the file (without the extension).
-d, --desc
Description; specify a description for the kickstart template. This defaults to an empty string.

The following are several ways in which you may invoke the add command:

snake-ks add /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
Add the local file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
curl http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/snake?p=snake;a=blob_plain;f=examples/minimal.ks;hb=master | snake-ks add --name=snake-wiki-example
Use the curl utility to download the above URL. The result is passed to snake-ks through standard input.
snake-ks add --name clearpart --desc @base clearpart --drives=sda,sdb /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
Add the local file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg using the name and description provided above.

REMOVE OPTIONS

The following example demonstrates calling the remove command.
snake-ks remove workstation-devel
Removes the template ``workstation-devel'' from.

GENERATE OPTIONS

The following generate command line options are permitted.
-v, --version
Version; specify a version to use when generating the kickstart file. Unless specified, a value of ``devel'' will be used. For a complete list of version's please reference the pykickstart package.

The generate command can be invoked several ways, for examples:

snake-ks generate minimal
Generates a kickstart file using the minimal template. The kickstart version will default to ``devel''.
snake-ks generate --version RHEL4 everything
Generates a RHEL4 kickstart file using the everything template.

DESCRIBE OPTIONS

The following example demonstrates calling the describe command.
snake-ks describe workstation-devel Common Developer Install
Updates the description of the workstation-devel template to be "Common Developer Install"

RENAME OPTIONS

The following example demonstrates calling the rename command.
snake-ks rename workstation-devel workstation-common
Renames the kickstart template workstation-devel to workstation-common.

ADDITONAL RESOURCES

See https://fedorahosted.org/snake for more information, including information on scripting snake from Python.

For information about pykickstart, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/pykickstart.

See also the manpages for snake-tree, snake-install, snake-install-tui, and snake-server

AUTHOR

Various. See https://fedorahosted.org/snake