[Spacewalk-list] Can't get rhn-clone-errata.py to work

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:36:43PM +0200, Michel Hendriks wrote:
> 
> At the moment I am trying to get [ rhn-clone-errata.py ] to work but I can't
> seem to do so.
> 
> My situation is that on server mgt50 I have spacewalk 1.4 running. It is  a
> closed environment
> with a http proxy connected to the Internet.
> 
> My hosts are running RHEL 5.4 x86_64
> 
> >From the mgt50 I am trying to get errata information into Spacewalk using :
> 
> /sbin/rhn-clone-errata.py -s localhost -l admin -p <pw admin> -c
> rhel-x86_64-server-5  --publish
> ( using the -s I also tried mgt50 instead of localhost ).
> 
> iptables / selinux are stopped
> 
> In the script I set the following :
> 
> svrRHN = 'xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com'
> userRHN = 'RHN Username'
> passRHN = '<RHN Password'

Which script do you have in mind here?

> When running my script, On the prompt I set :
> 
> export https_proxy="http://<proxy user>:<proxy password at 10.132.174.140:8080"
> export http_proxy="http://<proxy user>:<proxy password at 10.132.174.140:8080"
> 
> 
> Does not matter what I try the error message keep on saying  :
> 
> socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

Please strace the process to see when exactly it fails and what name
it tries to use.

> Maybe how I should look at the output ... I don't know whether it is the
> connection to RHN or the connection to
> my spacewalk server which is wrong.

Just strace it.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat