CentOS - Mar 2008 - how do I run something on a newly installed server, on it's 1st boot only?

Hi all

I'm busy with a kickstart file to automate server installations, and I 
need to run a bash script right after the server has been installed for 
the first time. But the script only needs to run once, and it needs to 
run automatically. How do I do that?

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Hi,

you can use the %post part of the kickstart for that, then your script
will run after installation is complete but before the reboot. If you
need to run it after the first reboot, I'd put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
and let it remove itself after running succesfully. And of course copy
the script to the server using the %post part of kickstart ;)

	Regards,

	Michel


On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 09:11 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm busy with a kickstart file to automate server installations, and I 
> need to run a bash script right after the server has been installed for 
> the first time. But the script only needs to run once, and it needs to 
> run automatically. How do I do that?
>