[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk client not checking in on CentOS 7

[Nicole Beck]

Hi Len,
I had the same problem with centos 7.  I think I had to enable and start the rhnsd.timer as well as rhnsd.service in order for the client to check in.

This is what I have in my notes.

systemctl enable rhnsd.service
systemctl start rhnsd.service

systemctl enable rhnsd.timer
systemctl start rhnsd.timer

[root at gonzo ~]# systemctl is-active rhnsd.timer
active
[root at gonzo ~]#
[root at gonzo ~]# systemctl is-enabled rhnsd.timer
enabled

[root at gonzo ~]# systemctl list-timers
NEXT                         LEFT          LAST PASSED UNIT
Wed 2019-05-29 13:50:43 EDT  5s left       n/a  n/a    systemd-tmpfiles-clean.ti
Wed 2019-05-29 16:10:13 EDT  2h 19min left n/a  n/a    rhnsd.timer

Hope this helps.
Nicole



From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Brian Long
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 8:03 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk client not checking in on CentOS 7

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 7:54 AM Len Ewen <ewenf at uindy.edu<mailto:ewenf at uindy.edu>> wrote:
I know this a stupid noob question but I have a problem.  I've got a clean built, fresh out of the box spacewalk 2.9 server and a 2.9 client.  The client checked in once, but hasn't checked again for the last 16 hours.  16 hours seems like a long time for a check in to happen, but I am not sure what is going on.  What am I missing?  Do I need to set up a cron job to update or something?

Look into setting up the optional osad.  https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/OsadHowTo

/Brian/

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