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List:       opensuse-autoinstall
Subject:    AW: [suse-autoinstall] PXE loop /solved
From:       "Frank Pascher" <fpascher () mpifr-bonn ! mpg ! de>
Date:       2003-02-06 7:53:59
Message-ID: 000701c2cdb4$d53171f0$32106886 () DOLPHIN
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Hi,

the problem with PXE-Loop is solved.

First of all thanks for all the comments.

As a result of this I changed over to atftpd, because of the fact that we
will install more than 200 clients via this system over night.


The result is a small perl script which compares atime and ctime of the
pxe-file.

As soon atime is newer than ctime the file is deleted.
This script will be run via cron/atd every 15 minutes.

That's it, small and simple. :-))

The first approach was to monitor the /var/log/messages. 
But this wolud result in to much checks, before you whether the file has
been served or not (date, client IP). The next thing would be that I never
know how big this file will get. Who knows what ever and how much gets
logged to that file ? :-)

So I skipped that.

The approach Anas tried is ok, but we have tftpd/dhcp on a different server
than autoinstall. So his approach would not work. for a single server
solution it would be ok.


As soon I finished the script I gonna post it here.

Anas if you like to put the script into the documentation you're welcome.
(With a small hint to my person :-)).


cheers frank

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