up2date: how does it get run?

[Dave Edsall - The Tauminator]

>
>I've been getting notices from RHN that one of my servers is failing to 
>check in (and pull down updates).  When I log in to the server and run 
>up2date -u, it runs just dandy and updates the system entry on RHN with 
>the time it was run.


   I have seen this before on a couple of my servers.

   If you have pre-scheduled an event and it doesn't happen, or you are just 
getting the message that the machine isn't checking in, check 
/var/log/daemonlog. On a regular basis you should see entries such as:


   Nov  2 09:35:19 <your machine> rhnsd[9959]: running program 
/usr/sbin/rhn_check

If you don't restart rhnsd. rhn_check is the script that actually calls 
up2date for you when you schedule updates.



        Dave