[Spacewalk-list] Redhat 4/Centos Client

[Per Qvindesland]

Hi

I got that last one sorted, I did yum install centos-release and it was all
good in registering the machine with the spacewalk server.

Kind regards
Per Qvindesland


On 3/10/09 9:58 PM, "Luis Garcia" <luis.garciavega at gmail.com> wrote:

> It might be easier to just yum and the centos4 repos that come
> pre-configured with Centos4. but if you want to manage centos4 via
> spacewalk, it takes a few steps:
> 
> Editing the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources  file:
> Remove all the source lines, so up2date doesn't try use a non-local rhn
> source.
> 
> Then register the client with your own rhn:
> 
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://<your spacewalk server>/XMLRPC
> --activationkey=<your activation key>
> 
> Then do the appropriate channel adding and such on the spacewalk
> sever, this should be just like a centos5 setup.
> 
> Then, back on the server:
> 
> Import the GPG key
> rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4
> 
> To update the server:
> up2date -u -v
> 
> if there any kernel, or other protected updates:
> up2date -u -v -p
> 
> To install packages, not using yum:
> 
> up2date -i <package name>
> 
> 
> HTH,
> -Luis
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Per Qvindesland <per at norhex.com> wrote:
>> Hi Luis
>> 
>> Thanks for replying to me.
>> 
>> I have been thinking of the same but I kinda hit the wall nose first :) got
>> any idea of how to configure up2date or how to execute up2date I.E up2date
>> spacewalk-client?
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> Per Qvindesland
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/10/09 9:26 PM, "Luis Garcia" <luis.garciavega at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> You'll have to use the up2date tools that come with rhel4. I don't
>> 
>> 
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