[Spacewalk-list] Pushing updates to a Spacewalk Client

[Jeremy Maes]

Op 29/11/2012 23:19, J.W. slone schreef:
> Trying to push Updates to Centos 5.7 client
> ...
> 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
> I am  trying to prevent Packager Updater from showing on the user's 
> workstation. I want to control all the package updates to one Patch 
> night per week or month. Do have any thoughts?

If you're not using osad then actions don't get pushed to the clients. 
Rather a client will check in with the server every 4 hours (by default, 
see /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd to change it) and pull in any actions the 
spacewalk server has scheduled for it. So to actually see if your action 
works automatically as it should you have to wait until the next time 
the client checks in, which might be up to 4 hours.

Of course you can always manually force a check on the client by running 
the *rhn_check* command.

Regards,
Jeremy

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