Documentation for LCFG Users

These tips and howtos relate to using LCFG to control aspects of a machine's configuration.

• HardWare - information for supported hardware models
• StatusDisplay - controlling the status display
• StatusButtons - executing local scripts when clicking on icons in the status page
• SecureMode - experimental "secure mode" for the LCFG client
• StubEntries - stub entries on the LCFG server
• ProdComponent - how to force a one-off call to a component method
• InstallMethod - How to carry out commands at install time
• PackagesAndUpdates - How to use the updates package lists
• OptionalPackages - Details of the new options package list and resource
• SystemInformation - Platform and operating system specific information available from the sysinfo component.
• LoggingToSyslog - How to configure components to log through syslog
• LCFGClientGuide - A guide to the inner workings of the LCFG client
• PackageSpecifications - The syntax for package specifications
• DumpDeps - How to take a look at the LCFG dependencies between hosts and files
• TaskRunner - How to run daily tasks
• BaseInstall - Calling scripts as part of the install process
• DiskPartitioning - Details on how to configure the disk partition layout
• Soy - How to use lcfg-soy to manage LCFG package lists.
• PackageBuilding - Useful information on how to build packages

Individual components

• AccessConfComponent - manage access.conf style authorisation files
• ApacheConf - manage the Apache http daemon
  • ApacheConfModules - how to manage Apache modules
  • ApacheConfChanges - changes to the apacheconf component to support Apache 2.4 on SL7
• AuditdComponent - manage the Linux audit daemon
• AuthComponent - auth
• AutoRebootComponent - autoreboot
• Fail2BanComponent - fail2ban
• FlexLMComponent - flexlm
• FreeNXComponent - FreeNX
• FstabComponent - fstab
• KerberosLoginComponent - k5login
• MockComponent - mock
• NetworkComponent - network
• OpenafsComponent - openafs
• PamComponent - pam
• PbuilderComponent - configures the Debian/Ubuntu "personal package builder" tool
• PXEBoot - pxeserver & pxeclient
• RkHunterComponent - configure and run the rootkit hunter (rkhunter) tool
• SleepComponent - sleep
• SudoComponent - sudo
• SystemdDocs - systemd
• X509Component - x509
• XfreeComponent - xfree
• YummyComponent - yummy

A full list of components can be found at: https://svn.lcfg.org/viewvc/source/trunk/

Component manual pages are named lcfg-component, eg: man lcfg-file

As the manual page for each component is part of the component, you first have to install the component in order to be able to read its manual page.

If a component cannot be installed to read its manual (for example, if the computer needs further configuration before the component can actually be installed successfully), the manual page can be found in: https://svn.lcfg.org/viewvc/source/trunk/lcfg*COMPONENT*/*COMPONENT*.pod.cin (where COMPONENT is the component name (without the lcfg- part)

You can also check out a local copy of the svn.lcfg.org repository.

If you need to install a component's rpm manually, you can find where in the repo it is and then install it as follows. However, this may not work if the rpm has further dependencies.

# -u outputs the download URL, not just the filename
# lcfg-component should be replaced by the name, eg: lcfg-file
whererpms -u lcfg-component

# -Uvh = upgrade, verbose, show progress hash marks
# URL is the URL as found above
rpm -Uvh URL

HOWTOs

• FibreAttach - how to configure fibre attached storage devices
• InstallRootPatches - installroot patches are small pieces of script downloadable from WWW for local execution
• SSDdisk - using Solid State disks
• XRDPHowto