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

[Harry Hoffman]

would this work?

yum groupinstall Insight-Manager >> /dev/tty3 2>&1


--Harry


Brian Long wrote:
> 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/
>