NAME

       fai.conf - FAI Configuration

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/fai/fai.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The configuration for a target host consists of two parts:

       •      The  NFSROOT,  a  very  basic  yet  complete  root file system, which is exported to clients.  The
              NFSROOT is built using fai-make-nfsroot(8).

       •      The configuration space, which is loaded as one of the first steps of a FAI  run.   Several  tools
              and  protocols  are  supported  for  maintaining  and  accessing  the  configuration  space.   See
              FAI_CONFIG_SRC below.

       fai.conf defines the essential options to successfully start a FAI run.  It must be valid  bash(1)  code.
       This configuration file is NOT copied into the nfsroot by fai-make-nfsroot.

VARIABLES

       FAI_CONFIG_SRC
              This  variable  defines how to access the configuration space. It defines the protocol, the server
              and the location of the config space.

              For an initial installation of a client this variable is defined by using fai-chboot(8).   If  you
              do a fai softupdate, you can set the value in /etc/fai/fai.conf or by using the option --cspace.

       The following protocols and URL schemes are currently supported:

       •      NFS: nfs://<server>/<exported directory>

              Example: nfs://faiserver/srv/fai/config

       •      Local directory: file://<directory>

              The directory has to be an absolute path. So, this URL always starts with three slashes like this:
              file:///

       •      CVS: cvs[+ssh]://<user>@<host>/<cvs root> <module>[=<tag>]

              The config space is received from a cvs checkout.

       •      Subversion: svn[+(file|http|https|ssh)]://[<user>@]<host>/<repository>

              The  config  space  checked  out  from  a  subversion  repository using several protocol variants.
              Checkouts without a user name are also supported.

       •      Git: git[+<protocol>]://<git path>

              The config space checked out from a git repository, host can be empty. Also supported is git+http.

       •      Mercurial: hg+(http|https)://<hg path>

       •      HTTP: http://<server>/<filename> where <filename> is a (compressed) tar archive. For  verification
              purposes, also an md5sum(1) generated hash must exist at the same location as <filename>.md5.

              The   config   space   will   be  downloaded  from  the  given  location  via  HTTP.   Furthermore
              +path/tarfile.md5+ will be downloaded and the md5sum will be checked. +tarfile+ will be  extracted
              by ftar(8), and thus needs to have a recognized suffix, such as .tar.gz or tar.xz.

       LOGUSER Account name on the install server to save log files and call
              fai-chboot(8).   At  the  end  of  an installation, fai(8) may connect to the install server using
              FAI_LOGPROTO (see below) to store  the  generated  log  files  and  to  change  the  network  boot
              configuration  of  the target host.  To fully enable this, configure .rhosts and PAM such that the
              configured user can log in from all install clients without password.  This  account  should  have
              write  permissions  for  /srv/tftp/fai.  For  example, you can use write permissions for the group
              linuxadm. chgrp linuxadm /srv/tftp/fai;chmod g+w /srv/tftp/fai.  If  the  variable  is  undefined,
              this feature is disabled.

       FAI_LOGPROTO Protocol for saving logs
              Supported  values are: ssh (default), rsh, ftp and none. This will only be used if also LOGUSER is
              set.

              ssh: Use the scp command to copy the log files to the log server.

              rsh: Use the rcp command to copy the log files to the log server.

              ftp: This option saves logs to the remote FTP server defined by the $LOGSERVER  variable  ($SERVER
              value  is  used  if not set). Connection to the FTP server is done as user $LOGUSER using password
              $LOGPASSWD.  The FTP server log directory is defined in $LOGREMOTEDIR. These  variables  are  also
              defined in file server. All files in the directory /tmp/fai are copied to the FTP server following
              this example:

                ftp://$LOGUSER:$LOGPASSWD@$LOGSERVER/$LOGREMOTEDIR/

              none: Don't save the log files to the install server.

       FAI_DEBMIRROR Access Debian mirror via NFS-mounted directory
              If   defined,   FAI   mounts   the   NFS   share   to  $MNTPOINT  during  installation.   Example:
              installserver:/srv/debianmirror

       FAI_MONITOR_PORT
              The port to which FAI sents messages, if the fai-monitor is running. Default  to  4711.  See  also
              fai-monitor(8).  This  variable has to be set inside the nfsroot before the configuration space is
              available.

SEE ALSO

       fai(8), fai-make-nfsroot(8), fai-setup(8), fai-mirror(1), fai-cd(8)

       This file is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation).  See the FAI manual for more  information.   The
       FAI homepage is http://fai-project.org.

AUTHOR

       This man page was written by Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org>.

FAI 4.0                                           December 2013                                      fai.conf(5)