[Spacewalk-list] Server and client

[Jan Hutař]

On 2016-03-09 09:18 +1100, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>   Hola,
>   Does the Spacewalk server also need to register itself as a Spacewalk
>   client, or does it happen by default?

No, it does not.

>   I don't think we added it explicitly as a client, it just appeared. I'm

No, somebody had to register it.

>   using the spacewalk interface to install software, but it's now  been
>   waiting to install for over 12 hours without being actioned.

If you mean remote action waiting for 12 hours to be picked up, check if
rhnsd service on given client is running (checks for new events every 4
hours by default), or if you are using osad (should pick events in
seconds), check that service. What does `rhn_check -vv` say when
executed on the server with stacked event?

Note you can not have osad on Spacewalk itself.

>   When I try yum installing from the cli, I get this error:
>   Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
>   There was an error communicating with RHN.
>   Red Hat Satellite or RHN Classic support will be disabled.
>   rhn-plugin: Error communicating with server. The message was:
>   Broken response from the server.

Check servers logs (/var/log/httpd/error_log /var/log/tomcat*/catalina.out) as well.

>   I presume this is why Spacewalk can't install anything - which log file
>   do I look into?

Check /var/log/up2date log.

Regards,
Jan



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