NAME¶
fai.conf - FAI Configuration
SYNOPSIS¶
/etc/fai/fai.conf
DESCRIPTION¶
The configuration for a target host consists of two parts:
- •
- The NFSROOT, a very basic yet complete root file system, which is
exported to clients. The NFSROOT is built using
fai-make-nfsroot(8).
- •
- The configuration space, which is loaded as one of the first steps
of a FAI run. Several tools and protocols are supported for maintaining
and accessing the configuration space. See FAI_CONFIG_SRC
below.
fai.conf defines the essential options to successfully start a FAI run.
It must be valid
bash(1) code. This configuration file is NOT copied
into the nfsroot by fai-make-nfsroot.
VARIABLES¶
- FAI_CONFIG_SRC
- This variable defines how to access the configuration space. It defines
the protocol, the server and the location of the config space.
For an initial installation of a client this variable is defined by using
fai-chboot(8). If you do a fai softupdate, you can set the value in
/etc/fai/fai.conf or by using the option --cspace.
The following protocols and URL schemes are currently supported:
- •
- NFS: nfs://<server>/<exported directory>
Example: nfs://faiserver/srv/fai/config
- •
- Local directory: file://<directory>
The directory has to be an absolute path. So, this URL always starts with
three slashes like this: file:///
- •
- CVS: cvs[+ssh]://<user>@<host>/<cvs root>
<module>[=<tag>]
The config space is received from a cvs checkout.
- •
- Subversion:
svn[+(file|http|https|ssh)]://[<user>@]<host>/<repository>
The config space checked out from a subversion repository using several
protocol variants. Checkouts without a user name are also supported.
- •
- Git: git[+<protocol>]://<git path>
The config space checked out from a git repository, host can be empty. Also
supported is git+http.
- •
- Mercurial: hg+(http|https)://<hg path>
- •
- HTTP: (http|https|scp|sftp)://<server>/<filename> where
<filename> is a (compressed) tar archive.
The config space will be downloaded from the given location via the
specified protocol. <filename> will be extracted by ftar(8), and
thus needs to have a recognized suffix, such as .tar.gz or tar.xz.
- LOGUSER Account name on the install server to save log files and
call
- fai-chboot(8). At the end of an installation, fai(8) may
connect to the install server using FAI_LOGPROTO (see below) to
store the generated log files and to change the network boot configuration
of the target host. To fully enable this, configure .rhosts and PAM such
that the configured user can log in from all install clients without
password. This account should have write permissions for /srv/tftp/fai.
For example, you can use write permissions for the group linuxadm. chgrp
linuxadm /srv/tftp/fai;chmod g+w /srv/tftp/fai. If the variable is
undefined, this feature is disabled.
- FAI_LOGPROTO Protocol for saving logs
- Supported values are: ssh (default), rsh, ftp and none. This will only be
used if also LOGUSER is set.
ssh: Use the scp command to copy the log files to the log server.
rsh: Use the rcp command to copy the log files to the log server.
ftp: This option saves logs to the remote FTP server defined by the
$LOGSERVER variable ($SERVER value is used if not set). Connection to the
FTP server is done as user $LOGUSER using password $LOGPASSWD. The FTP
server log directory is defined in $LOGREMOTEDIR. These variables are also
defined in file server. All files in the directory /tmp/fai are copied to
the FTP server following this example:
ftp://$LOGUSER:$LOGPASSWD@$LOGSERVER/$LOGREMOTEDIR/
none: Don't save the log files to the install server.
- FAI_DEBMIRROR Access Debian mirror via NFS-mounted directory
- If defined, FAI mounts the NFS share to $MNTPOINT during installation.
Example: installserver:/srv/debianmirror
- FAI_MONITOR_PORT
- The port to which FAI sents messages, if the fai-monitor is running.
Default to 4711. See also fai-monitor(8). This variable has to be set
inside the nfsroot before the configuration space is available.
SEE ALSO¶
fai(8),
fai-make-nfsroot(8),
fai-setup(8),
fai-mirror(1),
fai-cd(8)
This file is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). See the FAI manual for
more information. The FAI homepage is
http://fai-project.org.
AUTHOR¶
This man page was written by Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org>.