Adrián, Thanks. I did check the entitlements when I created the activation key but then I changed the value of the 'key'-field to something I could remember/recognize. The logging however did not reflect this change. So - just now - I deleted the key, created a new one and associated it with the kickstart profile. Requesting the kickstart file from my browser works (jay!) I'll try kickstarting a VM in a moment... Willem. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Adrián Márques <<a href="mailto:amarques@geocom.com.uy">amarques@geocom.com.uy</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hopefully this could save you some time: Go and edit your activation key, (from heart) there should be 4 checkboxes were you mark if the system associated with that key have the entitlements provisioning, monitoring, virtualization or virtualization platform. Make sure 'provisioning' is checked. That should take care of your PermissionException. I still haven't had the time to get kickstarting working myself, so I could be dead wrong here, but in order to kickstart systems you'll need the rhn-kickstart package, which (for RHN) seems to be located in the Tools channel. I think you should also need rhnlib, and that you can get them both at the location where all spacewalk client packages are hosted. I don't know if these packages should be placed in a particular channel or just pushed into the base one associated with your kickstart profile. Please let me now if you fixed your problem and how, since I'm also interested in setting up CentOS kickstarting. I hope this helps somewhat. Regards. Adrián. Willem Bos escribió: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> Hi James, I just checked /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out and it contains errors : 2008-11-18 15:36:03,700 [TP-Processor6] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.KickstartScheduleCommand - Tools channel not found! This means we can't find the rhn-kickstart package. 2008-11-18 15:36:03,707 [TP-Processor6] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.common.errors.PermissionExceptionHandler - Permission Error com.redhat.rhn.common.security.PermissionException: The activation key '1-1b5ded8329c9661f44cfc5656fca7a50' needs provisioning capabilities to be able to facilitate the config channel functionality Now, I'm new to Spacewalk so I'll have to check te manual. I'll probably get to that tomorrow. Regards, Willem. </div><div class="Ih2E3d"> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:21 PM, James Fillman <<a href="mailto:jfillman@central1.com" target="_blank">jfillman@central1.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jfillman@central1.com" target="_blank">jfillman@central1.com</a>>> wrote: I'm having the same problem too. I've got Spacewalk 0.3 running on a CentOS 5.2 server. I was successfully kickstarting and registering centos-52-i386 clients 2 days ago. As soon as I created a new CentOS Org, setup the necessary channels, installed the kickstart tree, created an activation key, and updated the kickstart profile, I can no longer pull the down a kickstart file from ANY of my orgs. I keep getting the HTTP 401error. It's not a DNS issue as I'm using the FQDN. [jrf@denali ~]$ wget <a href="http://spacewalk.cucbc.com/kickstart/ks/org/3x7a18626c82422f653f552abb32918f20/label/centos-32" target="_blank">http://spacewalk.cucbc.com/kickstart/ks/org/3x7a18626c82422f653f552abb32918f20/label/centos-32</a> --2008-11-19 10:04:20-- <a href="http://spacewalk.cucbc.com/kickstart/ks/org/3x7a18626c82422f653f552abb32918f20/label/centos-32" target="_blank">http://spacewalk.cucbc.com/kickstart/ks/org/3x7a18626c82422f653f552abb32918f20/label/centos-32</a> </div> Resolving spacewalk.cucbc.com... <a href="http://172.17.109.30" target="_blank">172.17.109.30</a> <<a href="http://172.17.109.30" target="_blank">http://172.17.109.30</a>><div class="Ih2E3d"> Connecting to <a href="http://spacewalk.cucbc.com" target="_blank">spacewalk.cucbc.com</a> </div> <<a href="http://spacewalk.cucbc.com" target="_blank">http://spacewalk.cucbc.com</a>>|<a href="http://172.17.109.30" target="_blank">172.17.109.30</a> <<a href="http://172.17.109.30" target="_blank">http://172.17.109.30</a>>|:80... connected.<div class="Ih2E3d"> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Authorization failed. [jrf@denali ~]$ I'm currently scratching my head over this too. Like I said, this was all working great before I went to add another Org. Now that I have, I can't pull down any ks files. Any more idea's?? Regards, James Fillman Systems Architect Central 1 Credit Union 1441 Creekside Drive Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6J 4S7 </div> <a href="mailto:jfillman@central1.com" target="_blank">jfillman@central1.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jfillman@central1.com" target="_blank">jfillman@central1.com</a>><div class="Ih2E3d"> Tel: 604.730.6328 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>>] *On Behalf Of *Willem Bos *Sent:* Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:59 AM </div> *To:* <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>><div class="Ih2E3d"> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] "bad HTTP response code" when kickstartingCentOS 5.2 Hi Adrián, Thanks for your response. The fqdn is present in the host file of the Spacewalk server and test failed there. During the installation of the client there's no shell on VT2 so I'm unable to perform the test in that stage. Thanks again, Willem. On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Adrián Márques </div><div class="Ih2E3d"> <<a href="mailto:amarques@geocom.com.uy" target="_blank">amarques@geocom.com.uy</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:amarques@geocom.com.uy" target="_blank">amarques@geocom.com.uy</a>>> wrote: I can't provide any insight into your problem, but I'd recommend checking out whether it actually is the fqdn before taking the time to set up a DNS server. Just add your server's fqdn to /etc/hosts in your client machine and see if a request addressed to the fqdn works or not. If not, mail back and someone else might be able to help you out. Good luck. Adrián. <a href="mailto:Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com" target="_blank">Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com</a> </div> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com" target="_blank">Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com</a>> escribió:<div class="Ih2E3d"> Hi Willem, I am unsure about the checks that spacewalk does when receiving a request for a kickstart. Login failed for me if I did not have a fqdn. I think I might have used ip on a previous satellite install I worked on but I dont have access to it anymore to test that. You are using a enterprise level tool that just works better if it has the supporting services like dns working. It will take you 30mins to setup a dns server somewhere on a box and at least help eliminate dns related issues. Regards *From:* <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>> </div><div class="Ih2E3d"> [mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> </div><div class="Ih2E3d"> <mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>>] *On Behalf Of *Willem Bos *Sent:* 18 November 2008 16:18 </div> *To:* <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a>><div class="Ih2E3d"> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] "bad HTTP response code" when kickstarting CentOS 5.2 Gerhardus, Thanks. But what about wget, shouldn't that work? Regards, Willem. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:11 PM, <<a href="mailto:Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com" target="_blank">Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com" target="_blank">Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com</a>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com" target="_blank">Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com" target="_blank">Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@gta-travel.com</a>>>> wrote: Hi It is best to get hostnames working as spacewalk is fussy about this. Regards </div></blockquote><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>