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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Len,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I had the same problem with centos 7. I think I had to enable and start the rhnsd.timer as well as rhnsd.service in order for the client to check in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This is what I have in my notes.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">systemctl enable rhnsd.service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">systemctl start rhnsd.service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">systemctl enable rhnsd.timer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">systemctl start rhnsd.timer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">[root@gonzo ~]# systemctl is-active rhnsd.timer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">active<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">[root@gonzo ~]#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">[root@gonzo ~]# systemctl is-enabled rhnsd.timer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">enabled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">[root@gonzo ~]# systemctl list-timers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Wed 2019-05-29 13:50:43 EDT 5s left n/a n/a systemd-tmpfiles-clean.ti<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Wed 2019-05-29 16:10:13 EDT 2h 19min left n/a n/a rhnsd.timer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Nicole<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Long<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 8, 2020 8:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk client not checking in on CentOS 7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 7:54 AM Len Ewen <<a href="mailto:ewenf@uindy.edu">ewenf@uindy.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know this a stupid noob question but I have a problem. I've got a clean built, fresh out of the box spacewalk 2.9 server and a 2.9 client. The client checked in once, but hasn't checked again for the last 16 hours. 16 hours seems like
a long time for a check in to happen, but I am not sure what is going on. What am I missing? Do I need to set up a cron job to update or something?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Look into setting up the optional osad. <a href="https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/OsadHowTo">https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/OsadHowTo</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/Brian/<o:p></o:p></p>
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