[Yum] Re: yum in kickstart %post and HP Insight Mgr

[Brian Long]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 21:02 +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2005, Brian Long wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to use yum in the %post section of kickstart.  With well-
> >written RPMs, this works great.  However, I've come across the lovely HP
> >Insight Manager RPMS (hpasm, hprsm, etc) which seem to run "service
> >hpasm start" during the RPM postinstall (yuck).  This wouldn't be too
> >bad if the daemons actually disassociated from the running terminal.
> 
> Don't let it have them:
> 
> %post
> yum groupinstall Insight-Manager < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1

I tried a variation of this so I could keep things logged (in order to
debug possible problems in the future):

chvt 3
yum groupinstall Insight-Manager </dev/null | tee -a /var/log/postinstall 2>&1
chvt 1

hpasmd is still tied to tty1.  If I kill the "tee" process, the %post
finishes running just fine.  Any ideas how to keep a log of all of yum's
output and display it in parallel instead of using tee?  I know about
yum.log, but I was hoping to grab possible errors to the postinstall
log.

I guess I could run "chvt 3; (tail -f /var/log/postinstall &)" and then
run the "yum >> /var/log/postinstall 2>&1".

Any other ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks for your help!

/Brian/

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