[Spacewalk-list] Invalid function call attempted (code 6)

[Michael Mraka]

Paul Greene:
> I have a spacewalk 2.9 server with CentOS 7 clients. When I run a scheduled
> remote command on 50 systems, usually about half of the systems will get
> marked as "failed" with the error "Invalid function call attempted (code
> 6)".
> 
> They all have the same configuration, and every line put in the remote
> command will run just fine from a command prompt. If I go into a system
> that has been marked "failed" and manually verify if the command did what
> it was supposed to do, many times it actually did succeed, but was still
> marked "failed". And there are some that did in fact fail.
> 
> How can I address this error to get rid of the false "failed" messages?

Hello Paul,

There should be more detailed error message in /var/log/up2date on
failed client.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat