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

[Klaus Steden]

This might be a stupid suggestion, but would using 'nohup' be of any value?

> > > [some preamble cut]
> > 
> > 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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