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

[Michael Mraka]

Raymond Setchfield:
> Hi
> 
> Our spacewalk server is still currently in development, along with two
> servers, a Centos6 and a Centos7 box. These haven't been patched before the
> meltdown issue came about.
> 
> Been looking out for the patches and kernels coming through, but I do see
> these coming through on spacewalk, however not seeing the kernel patches
> which should be there? Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Or am I
> looking for the wrong updates here? Updates are scheduled weekly and should
> have at least picked this up twice now?

Hi Raymond,

Fixes for meltdown bug went live in
CESA-2018:0007 for CentOS 7  (kernel-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7)
CESA-2018:0008 for CentOS 6  (kernel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6)
Check than you have appropriate erratum / kernel version installed.

> Base/EPEL/Extra is the channels that I have subscribed to
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ray

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat