[Spacewalk-list] Pushing updates to a Spacewalk Client

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:19:38PM -0800, J.W. slone wrote:
> Trying to push Updates to Centos 5.7 client 
>  
> 1) Click on Channels 
> 2) Click on my Base Channel  Test 
> 3) Click on Subscribed  Systems tab
> 4) Click on  client Test01 
>  
> This client is showing 96 available packages. My Base Test channel has a sub channel callled Test_Centos5_Updates. However when I 
>  
> 1) Click on Software tab within  Client Test01
> 2) Click on Install 
> 3) Click on Select All  
> 4) Click on Install Selected Pacakges
> 5) Select Schedule action as soon as possible 
> 6) Click on Confirm   
>  Wait for five or ten minutes nothing seems to happen. What am I missing 

Are you running osad on the client?

> I am  trying to prevent Packager Updater from showing on the
> user's workstation.

Then stop the Packager Updater service.

> I want to control all the package updates to one Patch night
> per week or month. Do have any thoughts?   

If running it during a night (rather than immediatelly) is enough, you
don't need osad, you can use rhnsd (and maybe lower the default 4
hour) checkin interval to say 1.5 hours.

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