[Spacewalk-list] failing yum update through 1.8 proxy

[Maria Iano]

On Dec 14, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Michael Mraka wrote:

> Maria Iano wrote:
> % I have just activated a 1.8 spacewalk proxy server on CentOS 5 i386.
> % I am able to register a new system to it, and I am able to list
> % updates, but if I try to install them they fail to download. If I
> % edit up2date to point to the spacewalk server itself the update
> % downloads successfully and installs. This only happens when I point
> % to the proxy server.
> %
> % It looked like this was
> % https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872721 but I implemented
> % the fix at http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?id=5f00038675c58c5a401d0c4a5cbfa332c28a4405
> % and it has not fixed this for me.
> ...
> % [Wed Dec 12 16:30:22 2012] [error]   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site- 
> packages/spacewalk/common/rhnCache.py",
> % line 156, in _safe_create
> % [Wed Dec 12 16:30:22 2012] [error]     fd = os.open(fname,
> % os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL, 0644)
> % [Wed Dec 12 16:30:22 2012] [error] OSError: [Errno 13] Permission
> % denied: '/var/cache/rhn/list_all_packages-rpmforge-el5-i386'
>
> Hi Maria,
>
> Why httpd can't access /var/cache/rhn/list_all_packages-rpmforge-el5- 
> i386?
> Are there correct permissions on /var/cache/rhn and
> /var/cache/rhn/list_all_packages-rpmforge-el5-i386?

Hi Michael,

# ls -al /var/cache/rhn
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   4 apache apache 4096 Oct 31 16:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  13 root   root   4096 Dec  4 15:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 111 root   root   4096 Dec 10 12:43 repodata
drwxr-xr-x 112 root   root   4096 Dec 14 08:06 reposync

As far as I can see those permissions look like they should work.  
There is no /var/cache/rhn/list_all_packages-rpmforge-el5-i386. Is  
that the problem, is that supposed to already be on the spacewalk  
server?

Thanks,
Maria