I would be interested in seeing the rules file solution. The 5000+ machines are spread across ~300 remote sites, with 300 different IP subnets. I may be better off going with Thomas's suggestion and just using sed to replace a default time zone in the XML file, but options are always good. Here's a better look at my environment: I have: 1 master repository server at a central location, master-repo 2 slave repository servers at each remote location, repo-a and repo-b (~300 locations spread across 3 time zones) Weekly I rsync the repositories and xml files from the master to the slave servers. The repositories are used for both installation and patch management. What I currently have, based on Thomas's solution is a syncscript that looks like this (the default value for time zone in my autoyast.xml file is America\Chicago): #/bin/bash rsync -ae ssh --delete master-repo:/srv/www/htdocs/install/ /srv/www/htdocs/install/ rsync -ae ssh --delete master-repo:/tftpboot/ /tftpboot/ TZ=`date +%Z` case $TZ in MDT|MST) #replace Chicago with Denver echo "replace Chicago with Denver" sed -i 's/Chicago/Denver/g' /srv/www/htdocs/install/autoyast.xml ;; EDT|EST) #replace Chicago with New_York echo "replace Chicago with New_York" sed -i 's/Chicago/New_York/g' /srv/www/htdocs/install/autoyast.xml ;; CDT|CST) #Do Nothing echo "Do Nothing" ;; *) echo $TZ "is not a valid Time zone" ;; esac REPO=`hostname |awk -F"-" ' { print $2}'` case $REPO in b) #replace repo-a with repo-b echo "replace repo-a with repo-b" sed -i 's/repo-a/repo-b/g' /srv/www/htdocs/install/autoyast.xml sed -i 's/repo-a/repo-b/g' /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default ;; a) #Do Nothing echo "Do Nothing" ;; *) echo $REPO "is not a valid Repo server" ;; esac On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:32 AM, 686f6c6d <686f6c6d@googlemail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 12, Rob Beglinger wrote:

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Is it possible for autoyast to query an external source to determine the appropriate time zone for a device? I have 5000+ machines that are identical except that they reside in different time zones, US/Mountain, US/Eastern and US/Central. I would like to only have one autoyast.xml file to maintain, but as these are all at remote sites, I cannot have a prompt pop up to have a user select the appropriate time zone. Does anyone have any suggestions?

If the groups of machines have something in common, like IP address ranges, or anything else that you can use to distinguish them, you could use that to build a simple rules file. (I can give you an example if you wish, but I can't access it right now.)

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