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

Wed Jan 8 16:16:43 UTC 2020

Hello,

The same holds true for SLES with respect to the 2.9 client as well.  The 2.8 client made use of the rhnsd binary, whereas the 2.9 client uses systemd timers.  This is something that seems to have changed relatively quietly.

Have a good day.

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Gerald Vogt
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 10:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk client not checking in on CentOS 7

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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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> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:28 AM Len Ewen <ewenf at uindy.edu 
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>     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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>     On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:21 AM Robert Paschedag
>     <robert.paschedag at web.de <mailto:robert.paschedag at web.de>> wrote:
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>         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.
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>         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
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>         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.
>
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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 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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