Hi,

I'm building a series of Kickstart configurations for a large roll-out. I'm trying to skinny down the servers so they are not vulnerable to attack (or as minimal as possible) and also cut down the Admin overhead.

I'm having to reverse engineer some if this due to a previous admin doing some of the work. The Kickstart config selects a range of Groups or packages and I'm trying to find out what packages are in each group.

Google says to look in repodata/comps-distro.xml but mine seems to be full of a lot of rubbish.

Any pointers?

Cheers,

Stuart.

The comps.xml contains many different languages, it can look bad in a text editor but the information is there.

You could go through an install to see what packages are in each group or you could probably get an idea from this link:

http://penguin.triumf.ca/comps/as4/c...ang-en_US.html

Eric,

You're a star, thats superb. Also took a look at your site, I liked the 'add colour to grep', still using it, it makes me laugh!

Stuart

I found a better way (although not pretty) to check for each distro. If you mount the distro/iso and look in ./Server/repodata/comps-rhel5-server-core.xml, do a cat of this file but 'grep -v 'xml:tags' redirect into a file and its much easier to read.
Could use XSLT but don't have time to learn now.