[Spacewalk-list] Keep package list up to date without osad

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

Op Woensdag, 12-07-2017 om 13:00 schreef magnus at 1337.cf:
> Hello folks,
> 
> quick question: Will the package list be up to date if a Spacewalk client server does not have an active running osad installed? Or will it stay on the initial package list created during registering the server? And is Spacewalk aware of fixed erratas due to package updates without osad?
> 
> Cheers
> Magnus

Run /usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync on the client in cron from time to time and you're good to go. See an example here (but I would run it more frequently than daily, every 4 hours or so ...):
https://github.com/sleterrier/spacewalkCustom/blob/master/clients/spacewalk-client.cron.daily

Franky