[Spacewalk-list] /var/satellite relocation

[Jason Frisvold]

Any thoughts on the below issue?  Is this a known bug, or should I
open one on it?

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Jason Frisvold <xenophage0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah (this is from RHN Satellite 5.1, not Spacewalk - the "Satellite"
>> may or may not be replaced with Spacewalk, btw), it's in Satellite
>> Tools/Satellite Configuration. The option is "RPM Repository mount
>> point"
>
> Hrm...  I re-ran the spacewalk-setup program and started with a clean
> database.  I was getting errors about duplicate system IDs, which I
> think I caused by trying to stop the rhnreg process.  Anyway, on the
> fresh system, I changed the mount point to /usr2/satellite.  I created
> this directory and changed ownership to apache:root.  Basically, same
> as /var/satellite.  I also created the new channels.
>
> I ran rhnpush to populate the new channels, but I'm getting an error :
>
> [root at dev base]# rhnpush --server=http://localhost/APP
> --channel=centos-5.2 CentOS/*
> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
> Error pushing CentOS/a2ps-4.13b-57.2.el5.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message:
>    Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/satellite'
> Error Class Code: 50
> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500)
> Waiting 1 seconds and trying again...
> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
> Error pushing CentOS/a2ps-4.13b-57.2.el5.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message:
>    Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/satellite'
> Error Class Code: 50
> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500)
> Waiting 5 seconds and trying again...
> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
> Error pushing CentOS/a2ps-4.13b-57.2.el5.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message:
>    Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/satellite'
> Error Class Code: 50
> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500)
> Waiting 3 seconds and trying again...
> Giving up after 3 attempts
>
>
> Looks like /var/satellite is hardcoded somewhere?  I wanted to verify
> this before I posted a bug report...  Am I missing something?
>
>> I don't think so, even satellite-sync (for Satellite customers to sync
>> to RHN hosted) takes quite some time for the database operations when
>> sync'ing a new channel, for instance.
>>
>
> I thought perhaps the act of uploading the files via http to the local
> server would take all the time..  If there were a way to identify it
> as a local server, a simple copy would be enough...  Less overhead.
>
> --
> Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
> XenoPhage0 at gmail.com
> http://blog.godshell.com
>



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Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
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http://blog.godshell.com