Need Assistance with Bash Script

[osobh]

Hello All,

This is my first post and would like to say hello and hi to all. Here is the dilemma that i'm currently facing:

I am sweating and struggling in creating a script that would automate the rebuilding process of my gentoo servers. I currently have a USB Rescuedisk that works perfect and allows me to automate scripts after boot in which case i would need help doing the following (Hold onnnn!!!! it's alot )

0) run to following command to check if partitions are still there ( cat /proc/partitions | grep sda | wc -l and also the same but cat /proc/partitions | grep sdb | wc -l )

Once that has been completed, and if partitions are not there then i will have to run Fdisk (and i will post the sequence that i will need), otherwise i can continue below:

1) Assemble the RAID disks (mdadm -A /dev/md1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 , mdadm -A /dev/md2 /dev/sda2 /dev /sdb2 , mdadm -A /dev/md3 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3)
2) Create the Filesystems (mke2fs /dev/md1; mkswap /dev/md2; swapon /dev/md2; mke2fs -j /dev/md3)

Now i have issued the following command and was able to get the MACAddresses, Hostname, and IP of every machine my network.

arp -a | gawk '{print $4, $1, $2}'

I took the results and output them to text file called Macaddreses. Basically i would need a way to check the macaddress listing to match the MAC address of the current machine i'll be working on, once that is a match i'll know eactly which IP it will be the i will need the script to also:

3) Configure network: nano /etc/conf.d/net; fill in two lines (ip, gateway) , change the hostname (/etc/conf.d/hostname )-->change to the right name)

then network needs to be restarted using /etc/init.d/eth0.net restart

once network is running i will need to copy a tarball:
4) Copy .tgz file from local master node (scp xx.xx.xxx.xx:/all.tgz /mnt/gentoo)
5) Utar it : tar -xzvf all.tgz
6) Create some empty directories once untar is finished and soft link (mkdir home, mkdir proc, mkdir sys, mkdir mnt; ln -s lib64 lib)

Run following commands:
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc;
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev;
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update

install grub:
grub --no-foppy;
root (hd0,0);
setup (hd0);
quit

Then Reboot the machine to test process.

Thank you all and let me know if you have any questions.

[PaulHuygen]

You seem to know what you would like to do. What exactly is the problem that prevents you to compose a script that does what you want it to do?

Paul Huygen.

[osobh]

composing the script...that's the issue. I'm not a genius at scripting and just seeing if there is someone who could at least guide me and let me experiment out and see if any of this works.

[osobh]

Pretty much figured out what needs to be done. I'll post what i have so far and see what people think about the structure.