[Spacewalk-list] scheduled updates not being picked up

[Michiel van Es]

Another update:

My clients have the following in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date:

versionOverride[comment]=Override the automatically determined system 
version
versionOverride=

enableProxyAuth[comment]=To use an authenticated proxy or not
enableProxyAuth=0

networkRetries[comment]=Number of attempts to make at network 
connections before giving up
networkRetries=5

hostedWhitelist[comment]=RHN Hosted URL's
hostedWhitelist=

enableProxy[comment]=Use a HTTP Proxy
enableProxy=0

serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL
serverURL=http://*MYSERVERFQDN*/XMLRPC

proxyPassword[comment]=The password to use for an authenticated proxy
proxyPassword=

proxyUser[comment]=The username for an authenticated proxy
proxyUser=

disallowConfChanges[comment]=Config options that can not be overwritten 
by a config update action
disallowConfChanges=noReboot;sslCACert;useNoSSLForPackages;noSSLServerURL;serverURL;disallowConfChanges;

sslCACert[comment]=The CA cert used to verify the ssl server
sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT

debug[comment]=Whether or not debugging is enabled
debug=0

httpProxy[comment]=HTTP proxy in host:port format, e.g. 
squid.redhat.com:3128
httpProxy=

systemIdPath[comment]=Location of system id
systemIdPath=/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid

noReboot[comment]=Disable the reboot actions
noReboot=0



Rob See wrote:
> Michiel,
> 
>     I believe I only got this error if I hadn't used the spacewalk
> bootstrap script on that client machine. Also, there are newer version
> of the manuals available. There are links on the website (maybe in the
> downloads section)
> 
> -Rob
> Michiel van Es wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> I found the following website:
>>
>> http://docs.huihoo.com/redhat/RHNetwork/RHN-satellite-en-4.1.0/s1-maintenance-push-clients.html
>>
>>
>> When I start the osad client on the client(s) I get the following error:
>>
>> ERROR: unhandled exception occurred: (Expired certificate
>> /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT).
>>
>> Let me google on that one :)
>>
>> Kind regards and thanks.
>>
>> Michiel
>>
>>
>> Rob See wrote:
>>> Michiel,
>>>
>>>     I'm not sure exactly what you mean by document. If you have any
>>> specific questions I'll be happy to try to answer them. Have you looked
>>> at the satellite manuals ? There is probably some documentation in
>>> there.
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>> Michiel van Es wrote:
>>>> Hi Rob,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible you could document this push model on the wiki or
>>>> publish it to us in the mailing list? :)
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Michiel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rob See wrote:
>>>>> You can cause more immediate installs by using osad on the clients and
>>>>> osa-dispatcher on spacewalk. The clients all sit in a jabber chat room
>>>>> waiting for commands from the spacewalk server. I've set this up here
>>>>> and it works pretty well. The updates don't happen instantly, but
>>>>> within
>>>>> 2 minutes or so of when you schedule them in Spacewalk.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Rob
>>>>> Michiel van Es wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Hodrien wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Michiel van Es wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And is it possible to change the default from 4 hrs to immediately
>>>>>>>> or 1
>>>>>>>> minute?
>>>>>>>> So if we want to push an upgrade or install, it will do it
>>>>>>>> immediately?
>>>>>>> I'd think that'd be a very bad idea.
>>>>>> Why?>
>>>>>> If I want to push an rpm to some servers (for instance mod_ssl)
>>>>>> Why should it be a bad idea to push them directly from spacewalk?
>>>>>> Same with updates..if I want to test them on for example my
>>>>>> development test servers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> jh
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Americans,
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>>>>>>>   substitute."                                        -- Paul
>>>>>>> Gallico
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> Rob See
> Systems Administrator
> Systems Management and Operations
> University at Albany
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