[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-repo-sync and cron

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, lists at xistenz.org wrote:

> Quoting John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>:
>
>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, lists at xistenz.org wrote:
>>
>> HTTP Proxy?
>>
>> jh
>>
>
> That was it.  I assumed that spacewalk-repo-sync used the yum.conf
> configuration (which is configured for our proxy).  Apparently, I
> needed to have the HTTP_PROXY environment variable set in my script as
> well.  I have done so, and all my issues have cleaned right up.
>
> Thank you John!  Very much appreciated.

No problem at all.  On our system I found that clicking 'sync repo' in the
webui didn't pick up the proxy settings that were set from /etc/profile.d, so
I just replaced spacewalk-repo-sync with a wrapper shell script.  I did end up
with a bit of a tangle of ownership in /var/satellite though, after mistakenly
running it as root, rather than apache, which I assume is how it runs from the
webui.  As a result, a later rhnpush got a bit upset.

jh