[Spacewalk-list] register systems

[Zachary Elston]

Just FYI:  I’ve never seen this page work in all my installs and just
register systems by including the cmd

 rhnreg_ks
--serverUrl=https://spacewalk.server.com/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-7add0da8bc
40dcde79f4ffd4f95f3d7b --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
	
in the bootstrap script.

Here’s my registration cheatsheet for a C5.2 system.  RHEL only needs the
rhn-org rpm and the rhnreg_ks line

Register:
rpm
-ivh http://spacewalk.server.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.r
pm
rpm
-ivh http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/spacewalk-tools/spacewalk-client-tools-
0.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y install rhn-setup yum-rhn-plugin
rhnreg_ks
--serverUrl=spacewalk.server.com/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-7add0da8bc40dcde79
f4ffd4f95f3d7b --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

edit things:
• perl -npe 's/=240/=10/' -i /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
• perl -npe 's/gpgcheck = 1/gpgcheck = 0/' -i
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf
Remove all of /etc/yum.repos.d/* if you like
enable things:
• yum -y install rhncfg-actions
• rhn-actions-control --enable-all
• service rhnsd restart


From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Vargo
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:36 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register systems

Centos 5.2 should have the same python version. Can you get any client to
register using rhnreg_ks
or rhn_register I can't and I get the same 404 error when I attempt to
register via the spacewalk web page. 

-Steve

> From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com
> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:30:46 -0500
> 
> Steve,
> 
> >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:24:57 -0500
> >From: Steve Vargo <stevevargo at hotmail.com> 
> >
> > I have a very similar issue I also get the 404 error
> > and can't register any hosts. What OS is your
> > spacewalk running on? I was told this is because of
> > the version of python that RHEL 5.2 is using.
> 
> CentOS 5.2, and this is *not* a python error. As I said, it's in the
tomcat error log, and unless someone explains this to me differently, I'd
say it's a bug, that the whole directory is in the wrong place.
> 
> mark
> >
> > > From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com
> > > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:20:16 -0500
> > > Subject: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
> > >
> > > I log into spacewalk. From the first page,
> > overview, I click on register systems. I get a 404:
> > > The page you requested,
> > /rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp, was not found.
> > >
> > > I look in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out, and see
> > the same message that I mentioned a few weeks ago,
> > when I spoke of hacking around with spacewalk, and
> > was castigated for doing so:
> > > Feb 17, 2009 9:06:21 AM
> > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig
> > deployDescriptor
> > > WARNING: A docBase /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn
> > inside the host appBase has been specified, and will
> > be ignored
> > >
> > > So, unless someone yells at me that there's a good
> > reason not to, that doing so will break something
> > else, I'm going to recursively copy the whole
> > directory to /var/www/html. Last time, I tried
> > symbolic links, and tomcat still complained.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a good explanation for a) why the
> > directory's under /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps, instead
> > of /var/www/html, and b) this wasn't caught long
> > before the release of 0.4? This time, I have *not*,
> > until now, hacked at the system to make it work, but
> > this functionality (or lack thereof) is obviously a
> > problem.
> > >
> > > Actually, thinking further, I wonder if this was
> > why both methods of registering a system, rhnreg_ks
> > and rhn_register, gave error messages, even though
> > it had succeeded.
> > >
> > > mark
> > >
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