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Generates the Kickstart File by Reverse Analysis

 Background

kickgen.pl is a Perl script that can be used to generate the Kickstart File that matches a Linux System.

We often notice that, even with Administrators who get use to deploy hosts using Kickstart Technology, the configuration files are no more maintained, and, after several months, these files files are no more accurate.

The purpose of kickgen.pl script is to analyze a host and try to re-generate a valid Kickstart File for this host.

At this time, the script is able to recreate the File Systems, the Network configuration, that's to say, almost all the choices you could have made if you had installed the system with the standard Installer.

The archive below also contains a ./comps/ directory with the XML files that describe the Groups of Packages contained in the distros. If your distro is not listed, just add a subdir and copy its XML file under.

 Requirements

• Perl
• Getopt::Std
• File::Basename
• XML::Simple
• Data::Dumper

 Syntax

Usage: ./kickgen.pl

Before running the script, edit it and make sure the variable $C_SUBVERSION_DIR is correct.

The Kickstart File is generated on stdout, the errors are displayed on stderr.

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