[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk client not checking in on CentOS 7
Len Ewen
ewenf at uindy.edu
Wed Jan 8 16:10:56 UTC 2020
I didn't have a reply from Nicole Beck in my email, but looking at the
listserv I found it. I have enabled the rhnsd.timer and we'll see if this
makes it talk properly. Thank you everyone for your help. Sorry for
bothering you with something so trivial.
---------------
Len Ewen
Systems Administrator 1
Information Technology
University of Indianapolis
(317) 788-3362
[image: UIndyIT.jpg]
Confidentiality Notice: This communication and/or its content are for the
sole use of the intended recipient, and may be privileged, confidential, or
otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If you are not the intended
recipient, please notify the sender and then delete all copies of it.
Unless you are the intended recipient, your use or dissemination of the
information contained in this communication may be illegal.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:58 AM Gerald Vogt <vogt at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> > ---------------
> >
> > Len Ewen
> >
> > Systems Administrator 1
> >
> > Information Technology
> >
> > University of Indianapolis
> >
> > (317) 788-3362
> >
> >
> >
> > UIndyIT.jpg
> >
> > Confidentiality Notice: This communication and/or its content are for
> > the sole use of the intended recipient, and may be privileged,
> > confidential, or otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If you are
> > not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and then delete all
> > copies of it. Unless you are the intended recipient, your use or
> > dissemination of the information contained in this communication may be
> > illegal.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ---------------
> >
> > Len Ewen
> >
> > Systems Administrator 1
> >
> > Information Technology
> >
> > University of Indianapolis
> >
> > (317) 788-3362
> >
> >
> >
> > UIndyIT.jpg
> >
> > Confidentiality Notice: This communication and/or its content are
> > for the sole use of the intended recipient, and may be privileged,
> > confidential, or otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If you
> > are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and then
> > delete all copies of it. Unless you are the intended recipient, your
> > use or dissemination of the information contained in this
> > communication may be illegal.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > sent from my mobile device
> >
> >
> > -------- 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
> >
> > (317) 788-3362
> >
> > [image: UIndyIT.jpg]
> >
> > Confidentiality Notice: This communication and/or its content
> > are for the
> > sole use of the intended recipient, and may be privileged,
> > confidential, or
> > otherwise protected from disclosure by law. If you are not the
> > intended
> > recipient, please notify the sender and then delete all copies
> > of it.
> > Unless you are the intended recipient, your use or dissemination
> > of the
> > information contained in this communication may be illegal.
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Spacewalk-list mailing list
> > > Spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:Spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
> > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
> >
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Spacewalk-list mailing list
> > Spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:Spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Spacewalk-list mailing list
> > Spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:Spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Spacewalk-list mailing list
> > Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Spacewalk-list mailing list
> Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/attachments/20200108/c45a95a7/attachment.htm>
More information about the Spacewalk-list
mailing list