Hi Jonathan, <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:40 PM, <<a href="mailto:lists@xistenz.org">lists@xistenz.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> [...] Thank you for your suggestion, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work as last night's run resulted in identical errors. The cron is still unable to retrieve the metadata. [...] </blockquote><div> if spacewalk-repo-sync isn't able to retrieve the metadata it is most likely that the URL is wrong. For CentOS the following is working: ### Architectures ### ARCH="x86_64 i386" ### Get packages for CentOS (i386 and x86_64) ### for archItem in ${ARCH}; do spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos-5-${archItem} --type yum --label base \ --url <a href="http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/centos/5.4/os/${archItem}">http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/centos/5.4/os/${archItem}</a> spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos-5-${archItem}-updates --type yum --label updates \ --url <a href="http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/centos/5.4/updates/${archItem}">http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/centos/5.4/updates/${archItem}</a> spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos-5-${archItem}-extras --type yum --label extras \ --url <a href="http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/centos/5.4/extras/${archItem}">http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/centos/5.4/extras/${archItem}</a> done Regards, Thomas </div></div>-- thomas bendler (systemadministration/network/SAP) cimt consulting ag fon: +49 (163) 6081 302 burchardstrasse 17 fax: +49 (40) 5 33 02-22 20095 hamburg <a href="http://www.cimt.de/">http://www.cimt.de/</a>