[Spacewalk-list] How to confirm that spacewalk is fetching updates (for mitigating meltdown bug)

[Andreas Dijkman]

The logging of Spacewalk is located in /var/log/rhn. The sync-stuff mainly reposync.log and details of each channel in the subdirectory reposync. 

KR,

Andreas Dijkman

> On 5 Jan 2018, at 19:55, Soham Chakraborty <dec.soham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to sync my repositories (subscribed with Red Hat) to bring the patches for meltdown bug (possibly everyone on earth who works with computers know this by now). 
> 
> I manually issued a reposync on my repositories. However the updated kernel didn't reach the spacewalk server and reposync completed saying that there are no packages to sync.
> 
> The spacewalk server is a RHEL7.2 box. When I checked manually on the server by running "yum --security check-update", I noticed the updated kernel in the yum output.
> 
> Does anyone know how can I verify that spacewalk is successfully fetching updates? And can anyone point out why I could be unable to fetch this kernel (anything to do with subscriptions)? Since Red Hat guys frequent this mailing list, decided to give it a try. 
> 
> Thanks, 
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