In our RHEL 6, there is an RHNSD task that the man page says queries 'Red Hat Network for updates and information'. It is suppose to check in every 4 hours, the default, this is also specified in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd. According to /etc/init.d/rhnsd it uses /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date as its config file. In here specifies logging as /var/log/up2date
Looking at /var/log/up2date it appears the 4 hour default is ignored. In fact, I'm not sure what interval it is using: [Thu Aug 18 02:21:30 2011] up2date logging into up2date server [Thu Aug 18 02:21:34 2011] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server [Thu Aug 18 03:51:26 2011] up2date logging into up2date server [Thu Aug 18 03:51:29 2011] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server [Thu Aug 18 06:21:30 2011] up2date logging into up2date server [Thu Aug 18 06:21:33 2011] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server [Thu Aug 18 09:54:50 2011] up2date logging into up2date server [Thu Aug 18 09:54:54 2011] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server The RHN web page indicates the server "Checked In: 8/18/11 10:21:34 AM EDT" Using the RHN web page, I specified 4 fixes to be pushed to this server and I expected it to happen when the server checked in. It didn't. So can anybody explain the time that time intervals we are seeing and when RHN will actually push fixes to a server? Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
