[Spacewalk-list] Tool to check contents of /var/satelite against RHN Database

Alan Evans alanwevans at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 18:25:12 UTC 2010


Yes, my script is pretty well purpose built for Satellite with the Oracle
embedded database...  But there are only so many hours in the day
unfortunately.  Glad to see with a minor edit though it worked for you.

-Alan

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:43 PM, ndegz <nndegz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the script, for those of you running it on spacewalk you need to
> change RHNSAT to SPACEWALK in the select statement.
> I've been using the update-packages script (which required a bit of hacking
> to get working) to find packages that are in the db but not the file system
>
> -N
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Alan Evans <alanwevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I posted to the list a few weeks ago about a tool to check /var/satellite
>> for packages that are not listed in the database and was told no such tool
>> existed.  So... I wrote one.
>>
>> My concern was that my company's RHN Satellite has been through more than
>> a few upgrades, including some major upgrades like 4 -> 5 and has been
>> through the removal of bunches of custom and Red Hat base channels alike.
>> In my experience any time a database contains a list of files on a
>> filesystem the two will inevitably get out of sync somehow.
>>
>> Satellite-sync does a great job of making sure what's in the database has
>> a counterpart on the filesystem so this is not a problem.  However the
>> reverse seems not to have been considered.
>>
>> Using my script I was able to indeed find that there were about 90 files
>> in /var/satellite that were no represented in the RHN database.  Ok so 90
>> files out of 56,000 is not exactly something to get too overly worked up
>> about but before running my script I had no way to know.  My last RHN
>> Satellite upgrade involved moving Satellite to new hardware between
>> datacenters so the less I had to rsync the better.
>>
>> In any event, I have attached my script in case it might be of use to
>> anyone else.  If it looks good perhaps it would make a good addition to the
>> contrib directory.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Alan
>>
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