SI_UPDATECLIENT

NAME

SYNOPSIS

si_updateclient [ --help ] [ --version ] [ --server HOSTNAME ] [ --image IMAGENAME ] [ --override OVERRIDE ... ] [ --directory DIRECTORY ] [ --no-bootloader ] [ --autoinstall ] [ --flavor FLAVOR ] [ --configure-from DEVICE ] [ --ssh-user USERNAME ] [ --reboot ] [ --dry-run ] [ --log "STRING" ] [ --yes ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the si_updateclient command.

si_updateclient is a program that brings the local client's image up to date with an image on a image server.  

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

--help

Show summary of options

--version

Display version and copyright information

--server HOSTNAME

Hostname or IP address of the imageserver. Replaces deprecated --imageserver option.

--image IMAGENAME

Image from which the client should be updated. If not specified it will be used the image defined on the image server by si_clusterconfig(8).

--override OVERRIDE

Override module(s) from which to copy additional files. Override directories are useful when you have multiple types of clients that share a subset of files. The image can contain this subset, and you can have an override module for each client type which contains the additional files required for that client type. If the same file exists in an override module and the image, the files in the override module will overwrite those in the image.

You can specify multiple override modules. They will be copied over in the same order the are specified on the command line.

If not specified it will be used the list of overrides defined on the image server by si_clusterconfig(8).

--directory DIRECTORY

Absolute path of the directory to be updated (defaults to "/")

--no-bootloader

Don't run the bootloader (lilo, elilo, grub, etc) after update completes. (si_updateclient always runs the bootloader unless specified).

--autoinstall

Autoinstall this client the next time it reboots. This option must be used if you want your partition scheme to be updated to match the partition scheme of the image you are updating too. This is required if the partition scheme of the image you are updating from differs from the partition scheme of the image you are currently running, as your system may be left unbootable otherwise. This option conflicts with --nolilo.

Updates that use this option cannot take advantage of rsync's efficient updating mechanism. This process also requires two reboots. This makes --autoinstall updates more consuming.

--flavor FLAVOR

The boot flavor to be used for doing an autoinstall (only valid with -autoinstall).

--configure-from DEVICE

Only used with -autoinstall. Stores the network configuration for DEVICE in the /local.cfg file so that the same settings will be used during the autoinstall process.

--ssh-user USERNAME

Username for ssh connection from the client. Only needed if a secure connection is required.

--reboot

Reboot client after update completes.

--dry-run

Don't actually modify anything, just show what would be done.

--no-delete

Don't delete any file on the client. Only download new files and update the files that already exist.

--log STRING

Quoted string for log file format. See the rsyncd.conf(5) man page for options.

--yes

Answer yes to all questions.

SEE ALSO

si_pushupdate(8), si_lsimage(8), si_clusterconfig(8), si_pushoverrides(8)

More details can be found in the SystemImager manual.  

AUTHOR

This manual page was compiled by dann <<dannf@debian.org>> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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