[Spacewalk-list] Clients not picking up remote actions scheduled by Spacewalk server 1.4

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:27:59AM +0100, david.x.lind at sandvik.com wrote:
> 
> First time ever posting on a mailing list, hopefully I'll get it right. 
> :-)
> 
> I've noticed that if I schedule a remote command to be executed on a 
> client in the Spacewalk server it never gets picked up by the client. To 
> get the action to execute I need to issue 'rhn_check' on the client.
> 
> I have been trying to debug by viewing some of the logs in /var/log/rhn 
> but I am not sure where to look. 
> 
> I am running version 1.4 of the Spacewalk server and the clients are 
> kickstarted with CentOS 6 x86_64.
> 
> Any pointers on this one?

You need to run rhnsd which will do the periodic rhn_check calls.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat