Override zentyal Network Configuration in a VM?

[Alan Lord]

For our Virtual Machine configuration we need to have pointopoint set.

The following configuration in the /etc/network/interfaces works perfectly for standard installs of any debian/Ubuntu based server systems.

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iface eth0 inet static
        address 4X.4.1X5.X3
        netmask 255.255.255.255
        gateway 2XX.1XX.9X.2X8
        pointopoint 2XX.1XX.9X.2X8
However, I have just installed Zentyal to act as our mail server configuration system and it keeps trying to override my network configuration by removing the pointopoint line and adding a broadcast. This renders the network interface on the VM inaccessible.

Can I override the automatic network save? If I edit the file manually and restart networking from the CLI I can access Zentyal just fine. But every time I save something it breaks the networking configuration :-(

TIA

Alan

[zephyrnet]

Hi,

Did you get a response to this?

I have the same issue.

as soon as zentyal installed on top of ubuntu it rewrites all networking config.

It must generate another config file somewhere else - but where ?

It means that zentyal is useless as a base system to host virtual machines :-(

[Sam Graf]

http://blogs.zentyal.org/jacalvo/2011/01/04/how-to-customize-the-configuration-files-generated-by-zentyal/

[Alan Lord]

Did you get a response to this?

I have the same issue.

as soon as zentyal installed on top of ubuntu it rewrites all networking config.

Hi, yes I think I found out about the hooks idea.

In /etc/ebox/hooks I have a file called network.postsetconf

which contains the following.

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#!/bin/sh

if grep "/sbin/ifenslave" /etc/network/interfaces >/dev/null; then
        exit 0
fi
cp /etc/network/interfaces.vm /etc/network/interfaces

exit 0
The file interfaces.vm contains what I need the server to have and gets copied over the Zentyal file as and when needed.

I think this is how I fixed it... It was quite a while ago now but that looks about right.

Cheers

Alan