[Spacewalk-list] FW: Spacewalk 2.9 clients

[William Hongach]

Hello again,

Following up on yesterday's inquiry regarding compatibility, I installed the 2.9 client on a test SLES 12 SP4 machine.  This is my first experience with 2.9 and I noticed something interesting.  Following the online Spacewalk documentation, I installed all necessary packages for SLES successfully, including rhnsd yet there is no rhnsd binary installed on the system.  Did something go wrong with the install?

The 2.8 client package installed a binary /usr/sbin/rhnsd that started as rhnsd.service under systemd.  This obviously called rhn_check at the frequency detailed in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd.  Our 2.9 installation of the rhnsd package on SLES 12 SP4 did not install the binary nor is rhnsd.service running.  The system is checking in at the expected frequency according to the Spacewalk server, yet no scheduled tasks queued on the server are being picked up by this client.  Running rhn_check manually picks up queued tasks.

I am looking for some feedback with someone familiar with the 2.9 client install on SLES 12 SP4.  Is this a bug with the rhnsd package, problem with installation, or perhaps things work differently now?  Thanks in advance. 


-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of William Hongach
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:53 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.9 clients

Hello,

Can anyone confirm if Spacewalk 2.9 clients can communicate with a Spacewalk 2.8 server?  I ask because we currently have a 2.8 environment, but we are ready to deploy some SLES 12 SP4 servers.  The client available at download.opensuse.org for SLES 12 SP4 is version 2.9.

The majority of our SLES environment remains SLES 12 SP3 at this time so we would prefer to keep our Spacewalk server at 2.8 until we plan for a future migration.  Any insight into the 2.9 client backwards compatibility would be appreciated.  Thanks.

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