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

Gerald Vogt vogt at spamcop.net
Wed Jan 8 15:58:35 UTC 2020


As Nicole Beck wrote before: on CentOS 7 there is no daemon anymore. 
It's a systemd service with a systemd timer which calls rhn_check directly.

See

# systemctl list-timers
# systemctl status rhnsd.timer

-Gerald

On 08.01.20 16:53, Len Ewen wrote:
> Ok, so if I start the daemon, it checks in, then instantly dies. I look 
> at the osad file and nothing has updated and I cannot seem to find a log 
> file for rhnsd to see if something is going on there so what am I 
> missing?  I've removed and reinstalled the rhnsd package and still have 
> no luck.
> 
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> Len Ewen
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> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:28 AM Len Ewen <ewenf at uindy.edu 
> <mailto:ewenf at uindy.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Ok, so why wouldn't the daemon be running?  I forced a check in by
>     installing and removing a package, which seemed to work fine, but if
>     it requires the daemon to be running constantly, I am assuming it
>     won't check in again unless I force it?  I didn't do anything
>     special to this box, I literally did a fresh minimal install and
>     installed the spacewalk server on one box and the client on another
>     to see if I could get it to work.
> 
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>     Len Ewen
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>     Systems Administrator 1
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>     University of Indianapolis
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>     On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:21 AM Robert Paschedag
>     <robert.paschedag at web.de <mailto:robert.paschedag at web.de>> wrote:
> 
>         The daemon should be running. It should then check every
>         interval minutes if something has to be done. See also within
>         /etc/sysconfig/rhn/ for the interval. (Just right now know the
>         name of the config file). The minimum interval is 60 minutes.
> 
>         Robert
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>         -------- Originale Nachricht --------
>         Von: Len Ewen <ewenf at uindy.edu <mailto:ewenf at uindy.edu>>
>         Gesendet: Wed Jan 08 15:11:06 GMT+01:00 2020
>         An: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>         Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk client not checking in
>         on CentOS 7
> 
>         The rhnsd daemon isn't running, should it be constantly running
>         or does it
>         pause and then run again?  It is enabled, just not running.
> 
>         ---------------
> 
>         Len Ewen
> 
>         Systems Administrator 1
> 
>         Information Technology
> 
>         University of Indianapolis
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>         (317) 788-3362
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>         On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 8:58 AM Michael Mraka
>         <michael.mraka at redhat.com <mailto:michael.mraka at redhat.com>>
>         wrote:
> 
>          > Len Ewen:
>          > > 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?
>          >
>          > Hello,
>          >
>          > Check that rhnsd service is enabled and daemon is running.
>          > You can also check manually if the client is able to connect
>         to the
>          > spacewalk server:
>          >   rhn_check -vv
>          >
>          >
>          > Regards,
>          >
>          > --
>          > Michael Mráka
>          > System Management Engineering, Red Hat
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