[Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server?

[Paul Greene]

I'm going to ask them to exempt this one. The spacewalk server is very
useful for managing large numbers of machines, and it sounds like this
would break some of that management capability.

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 2:18 PM William Hongach <William.Hongach at marist.edu>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> It is the service (or related timer) that runs rhn_check based on the
> interval specified in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd.  This is how Spacewalk
> clients check in with the server for queued tasks.  There should be a man
> page available for rhnsd.
>
>
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> If you shut it down, the client will not check in with the server, unless
> rhn_check is run manually or via a scheduled task like cron.  However, if
> you run osad (I do not) then I do not believe you need it since that is a
> different model.  But your security team may also flag osad like they
> flagged rhnsd.
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> *On Behalf Of *Paul Greene
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 13, 2019 1:56 PM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able
> to communicate with a spacewalk server?
>
>
>
> What is the actual function of rhnsd? What is actually being lost if its
> not running?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 1:02 PM William Hongach <
> William.Hongach at marist.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I suppose you could run rhn_check out of cron if you did not want rhnsd to
> schedule it.
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> *On Behalf Of *Paul Greene
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:31 PM
> *To:* Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to
> communicate with a spacewalk server?
>
>
>
> Our security group is telling me, based on a Nessus scan, that I need to
> disable the rhnsd service.
>
>
>
> Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk
> server?
>
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