[Spacewalk-list] failing yum update through 1.8 proxy

[Michael Mraka]

Maria Iano wrote:
% 
% 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?

No, it should be created when needed. So what's the reason why httpd
can't create the file (e.g. does 
 su - apache -c 'echo >> /var/cache/rhn/list_all_packages-rpmforge-el5-i386'
works)? Maybe wrong selinux labels on directory?

Regards,

--
Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat