1SNAKE-KS(1) snake-ks SNAKE-KS(1)
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6 snake-ks -- Query or modifiy a SNAKE kickstart templates
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9 snake-ks [options] [command] [command-options ...]
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12 The snake-ks utility is used to query or modify SNAKE kickstart
13 templates. Unless specified, snake-ks will operate on a local
14 directory of files (see man snake.conf).
15 command is one of:
17 · list [KSSPEC]
19 · add [add-options] [filename] [...]
21 · remove [template] [...]
23 · generate [generate-options] template [...]
25 · describe [describe-options] template description
27 · rename [rename-options] template new-name
29 Unless the --help or -h option is given, one of the above commands must
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34 The following command line options are permitted.
35 -h, --help
37 Help; display a help message and then quit.
38 -v, --verbose
40 Verbose; output more information.
41 -s, --server
43 Server; rather than query the local system, communicate with a
44 snake-server
45 -p, --port
47 Port; Use the specified port when communicating with the snake-
48 server (defaults to 2903).
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51 When querying available templates, snake-ks list offers several filters
52 to limit your results. Available filters include:
53 · name
55 · desc
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59 The following add command line options are permitted.
60 -n, --name
62 Name; specify a name for the kickstart template. This defaults to
63 the basename of the file (without the extension).
64 -d, --desc
66 Description; specify a description for the kickstart template.
67 This defaults to an empty string.
68 The following are several ways in which you may invoke the add command:
70 snake-ks add /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
72 Add the local file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
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75 http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/snake?p=snake;a=blob_plain;f=examples/minimal.ks;hb=master
76 | snake-ks add --name=snake-wiki-example
77 Use the curl utility to download the above URL. The result is
78 passed to snake-ks through standard input.
79 snake-ks add --name clearpart --desc "@base clearpart --drives=sda,sdb"
81 /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
82 Add the local file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg using the name and
83 description provided above.
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86 The following example demonstrates calling the remove command.
87 snake-ks remove workstation-devel
89 Removes the template "workstation-devel" from.
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92 The following generate command line options are permitted.
93 -v, --version
95 Version; specify a version to use when generating the kickstart
96 file. Unless specified, a value of "devel" will be used. For a
97 complete list of version's please reference the pykickstart
98 package.
99 The generate command can be invoked several ways, for examples:
101 snake-ks generate minimal
103 Generates a kickstart file using the minimal template. The
104 kickstart version will default to "devel".
105 snake-ks generate --version RHEL4 everything
107 Generates a RHEL4 kickstart file using the everything template.
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110 The following example demonstrates calling the describe command.
111 snake-ks describe workstation-devel "Common Developer Install"
113 Updates the description of the workstation-devel template to be
114 "Common Developer Install"
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117 The following example demonstrates calling the rename command.
118 snake-ks rename workstation-devel workstation-common
120 Renames the kickstart template workstation-devel to workstation-
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124 See https://fedorahosted.org/snake for more information, including
125 information on scripting snake from Python.
126 For information about pykickstart, refer to
128 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/pykickstart.
129 See also the manpages for snake-tree, snake-install, snake-install-tui,
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134 Various. See https://fedorahosted.org/snake
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