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

[Andreas Dijkman]

I don’t know, I use Oracle Linux and am not subject to RedHat Subscription Channels. Unfortunately I can’t help you with that. But I read somewhere else that RHEL7.2 isn’t supported any more without Advanced or Extended Update support. So my suggestion would be to upgrade to 7.4 anyway.

KR,

Andreas Dijkman


> On 6 Jan 2018, at 12:27, Soham Chakraborty <dec.soham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Thanks for responding. 
> 
> So I checked the logs and in fact I had taken a look there before I sent this email and apparently reposync can't find any new errata. And going back I noticed that it didn't fetch any errata on previous scheduled runs as well. 
> 
> I restarted spacewalk-service and ran reposync again to no effect. 
> 
> What do you think I should attempt? 
> 
> Apparently right now I have to figure out why spacewalk is not syncing any new errata. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Andreas Dijkman <andreas.dijkman at cygnis.nl <mailto:andreas.dijkman at cygnis.nl>> wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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