[Spacewalk-list] systems registers as localhost.localdomain

Fri Sep 21 20:27:07 UTC 2012

If you're provisioning the server with DHCP and you haven't made a reservation, then that will cause the behavior you see.  The spacewalk registration takes place well before the cobbler scripts set the correct networking information in the kickstart process.

I work around this by having a %post script that sets the correct hostname and IP, runs rhn-profile-sync and then spacecmd to update the systems profile name.

Greg Wojtak
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From: Giovanni Torres <giovtorres at hotmail.com<mailto:giovtorres at hotmail.com>>
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Date: Friday, September 21, 2012 12:19 PM
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Subject: [Spacewalk-list] systems registers as localhost.localdomain

What causes a system to register itself to spacewalk with the wrong IP address and a hostname of 'localhost.localdomain' via kickstart/cobbler?

I checked the profile in cobbler and the hostname and IP address are correct and in DNS.  The kickstart profile makes no mention of any IP addresses.

What am I missing?