[Spacewalk-list] Why I want to give up on spacewalk

[Stewart L]

I got it installed on 5.2 last week with no issues.  I'll send you the steps
I used off-list.

My heartburn is managing the channels and managing the errata.  We don't
have desktops to manage, just servers, so it's easier for me to imply mirror
the repos locally and "yum update" my servers in the planned downtime.

Puppet for the config files (under revision control).

Stewart

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM, <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:

> I have gotten *nowhere* with the 500 error on the 64-bit machine. I told my
> boss that, and he figured that since the other admin had set up spacewalk .1
> on a 32-bit system, we'd try that. So, being in a VMware environment, we
> built a 32-bit CentOS system.
> I
>  a) installed Oracle, followed all the directions,
>  b) turned selinux permissive
>  c) installed spacewalk
>  d) FIXED IT'S BROKEN INSTALL of RHN, by
>        chgrp apache /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
>        chmod g+r /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
>  e) got to the website,
>  d) created an activation key
>  f) created the user rhnpush
> and tried to go to channels->manage.
>
> Apache 500 error. Guess what error shows up in /var/log/httpd/error_log?
> [Wed Feb 04 14:31:17 2009] [error] Execution of
> /var/www/html/network/software/channels/manage/index.pxt failed at Wed Feb
>  4 14:31:17 2009: user_role_acl_test called with no $pxt->user authenticated
> at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/RHN/Access.pm line 60.
>
> EXACTLY the same as on the 64-bit version.
>
> If it was up to me, I'd say spacewalk that this is POINT-4, and NOT ready
> for production, and recommend we look elsewhere.
>
> However, he still wants this up, so I'll ask again: what's wrong?
>
> Has anyone installed spacewalk .4, from scratch, on CentOS 5.2, after the
> middle of last week?
>
> Oh, btw, does it want sendmail running as a daemon?
>
> And is /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn of any importance, since tomcat ignores
> it, being inside the host appBase?
>
>      mark, the unbelievably frustrated
>
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Stewart
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