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I figured that the program which prompts for time/date is /usr/sbin/sysidsys
(right?), but I don't have source to modify it.  The man page did not reveal
any way to override this need.  Does anyone know how to perform a "more"
automatic installation than what currently is available?

Thanks,
Erez Zadok.
Central Research Facilities.
Columbia University Department of Computer Science.
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Quote:}I've setup a completely automatic network installation server, and was able
}to install a client by using "boot net - install" from the prom monitor.
}All went well, but I was unable to avoid the need to manually confirm that
}the time and date were actually correct.  In all cases the time and date
}were correct, and even if they were not, I don't care -- I want the
}automatic installation to continue without the need for manual intervention.

Casper

Quote:>I've setup a completely automatic network installation server, and was able
>to install a client by using "boot net - install" from the prom monitor.
>All went well, but I was unable to avoid the need to manually confirm that
>the time and date were actually correct.

The following need to be readable:
  netmasks entry for your domain
  timezone entry for your domain (one per host is not necessary)
  timehost entry in the hosts table (or the whole host table if you
                       don't mind allowing everybody to read it)
  services table  (since rdate needs tcp service to get the time)

Since you weren't getting prompted for netmask and timezone, I suspect
your NIS+ is set up with level 0 (minimum) security, but you are missing a
timehost alias.  Add that, and you should be able to install without
typing a thing.

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I fixed it by the following workaround: in the file that gets mounted as
/sbin/sysconfig ( in my case:
/export/install/export/exec/kvm/sparc.sun4X.Solaris_2.3/sbin/sysconfig)
the line calling sysidsys is commented out. By this, the Timezone is not set at
all (not exactly what you wish). I postpone this until the finish script is
running, where I put in some lines saying:

==============================start example===============================
# set timezone
cp /a/etc/default/init /a/etc/default/init.bak
sed </a/etc/default/init.bak -e"/TZ=/d" >/a/etc/default/init
ypcat timezone.byname | grep "[         ]$DOMAINNAME" |\
      sed -e"s/[        ].*//" -e"s/^/TZ=/" >>/a/etc/default/init
===============================end example================================

[     ] contains a blank and a tab every time, DOMAINNAME is set before.

This works just fine for me (finally).

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