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

[Luis Garcia]

Now that I think about it, I was getting a few 500 errors when I tried
getting to a server using a non-FQDN, I added entry on my /etc/hosts
file to avoid having to type out the server's IP into the browser.
That broke authentication somehow, so i erased the line  in my
/etc/hosts file and it worked again.

HTH,
~Luis

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Stewart L <stewartl42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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