[Spacewalk-list] A couple of questions

[Adrián Márques]

Many thanks Jesus for your answers.

That error appears on the spacewalk UI, when loking at the failed event 
of the affected system. I was trying to install a couple of aspell packages.

Regards.

Adrián.

Jesus M. Rodriguez escribió:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Adrián Márques <amarques at geocom.com.uy> wrote:
>   
>> Hi.
>>
>> Like I said in another mail, I'm trying out spacewalk, and trying to take it
>> all in at once is proving to be quite a task. I'm poking around and reading
>> the docs to see how it all works, but I still have some questions maybe some
>> of you could answer.
>>
>> 1) Is there a way to register virtual systems that have already been created
>> outside of spacewalk?
>>     
>
> You can register a virtual system as a "regular" system with
> spacewalk, but in order
> for spacewalk to know it is a virtual system, IIRC, it  would have
> needed to be created
> from spacewalk.
>
>   
>> 2) Can virtual systems be cloned from within spacewalk?
>>     
>
> No.
>
>   
>> 3) Installs/updates take quite a while to be applied. Apparently until the
>> rhn client happens to check in with the server. Is there a way to speed this
>> up? for the server to actively notify the clients of updates?
>>     
>
> You can enable osad. That will allow the server to send a message to the
> machines for them to checkin.
>
>   
>> 4) I got the following error when installing a couple of packages on a
>> client: 'Error while executing packages action: None [[6]] '. I suppose it
>> could be a dependency issue: I had pushed into the satellite only a few
>> packages because I was very short on disk space, and after I pushed an
>> entire CentOs repo the installs proceeded ok. However, the error message
>> isn't at all descriptive of the problem. Is there somewhere I can look for
>> further information when I get these kind of errors?
>>     
>
> Was that error on the client? or in the ui? I agree that error isn't very
> descriptive.
>
> jesus
>   
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