[Spacewalk-list] Scheduled actions slow to be acted upon

[Mullis, Josh (CCI - Atlanta)]

Oops, correction in-line....



On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 12:31 -0500, Mullis, Josh (CCI - Atlanta) wrote:

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> For the time being I have put the following in root's crontab:
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/sbin/service jabberd stop ; /sbin/service osa-dispatcher stop ; rm -Rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/* ; /sbin/service jabberd start ; /sbin/service osa-dispatcher start



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> 
> ...which I think is overkill, but it works very well.
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> Is there any timeline for func integration to replace jabber/osa?
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> 
> Thanks
> -Josh
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> 
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> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:09 -0500, Mullis, Josh (CCI - Atlanta) wrote:
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> > 
> > 
> > Been having an issue where if the spacewalk server is rebooted or a
> > "rhn-satellite restart" is issued, scheduled actions DO NOT happen
> > until an rhn_check is run.
> > 
> > By rhn_check I mean either manually running rhn_check, or restarting
> > the osad daemon on the client (which essentially does an rhn_check).
> > After restarting osad, if I immediately schedule another action, it
> > still does not get pushed to client unless another osad restart or
> > rhn_check is done.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > If I do the following steps, my scheduled actions are taken care of
> > immediately....
> > 
> > -------------------
> > 1.  rm -Rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/*
> > 2.  service jabberd restart
> > 3.  service osa-dispatcher restart
> > 4.  service osad restart  (On spacewalk clients)
> > ----------------------
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have tried just restarting jabberd and osa-dispatcher on the server,
> > and then osad on clients, it makes no difference.
> > However, if I re-do the above steps, it starts to handle actions very
> > quickly again.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >From what I understand, the above commands re-build the jabber auth
> > database.
> > 
> > So why after a database rebuild does it work properly, but breaks
> > after a reboot or "rhn-satellite restart"???
> > What is changing after a reboot or "rhn-satellite restart" ?
> > 
> > I still see clients successfully logging into jabber via the logs.
> > 
> > 
> > Using spacewalk v0.6 on RHEL5
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for reading through this!
> > -Josh
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