Manually created kickstart %post script does not seem to work

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

A simple %post in a kickstart script does not seem to work:

%post --nochroot --logfile /mnt/sysimage/root/postscript.log
echo '#timestamp for history' >> /mnt/sysimage/etc/bashrc
echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T "' >> /mnt/sysimage/etc/bashrc
%end

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • standard kickstart installation (not Satellite)

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