<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <style style="display: none;" id="owaParaStyle" type="text/css">P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style> </head> <body tabindex="0" aria-label="Message body" fpstyle="1" dir="ltr"> <div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; margin: 0"> Hi, I've got another copy of my local oracle 10g database on another server, and now I want spacewalk to use this other database server (which is an Oracle 11g database) I have edited /etc/rhn/rhn.conf from db_backend = oracle db_user = spacewalk db_password = spacewalk db_name = SPACEWLK db_host = db_port = to db_backend = oracle db_user = spacewalk db_password = spacewalk db_name = SPACEWLK db_host = new.db.host.com db_port = 1521 However, this doesn't work. Spacewalk starts up as normal and uses it's local database as per usual. I am clearly missing something. Spacewalk still uses the local database. ... and yes, the listener port on the other host is reachable over the network (tested with telnet) I decided to do some testing and disabled the startup of the local Oracle database, and I get these errors in the start script: Starting osa-dispatcher: RHN 7091 2014/03/20 16:49:45 +10:30: ('Connection attempt failed', 12541, 'ORA-12541: TNS:no listener\n') RHN 7091 2014/03/20 16:49:45 +10:30: ('Error caught:',) RHN 7091 2014/03/20 16:49:45 +10:30: ('Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 117, in main\n self.setup_config(config)\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/osa_dispatcher.py", line 112, in setup_config\n rhnSQL.initDB()\n File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/__init__.py", line 102, in initDB\n __init__DB(backend, host, port, username, password, database)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/__init__.py", line 55, in __init__DB\n __DB.connect()\n File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/driver_cx_Oracle.py", line 387, in connect\n self.dbh = self._connect()\n File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/driver_cx_Oracle.py", line 413, in _connect\n dbh = cx_Oracle.Connection(self.username, self.password, self.database)\nSQLConnectError: (12541, \'ORA-12541: TNS:no listener\\n\', \'spacewalk@SPACEWLK\', \'Connection_Connect(): server attach\')\n',) So clearly there is another step I am missing. FYI I am using spacewalk 1.9 Can somebody fill me in on what that could be? Thanks, </div> </body> </html>