Hi Bobby, Can you check further back in the older logs (/var/log/update-<date> if you have logrotate installed) to see if this is the 12th up2date checkin? What may be happening is that rhnsd is designed to check in regularly 11 times, then on the 12th time it applies some random jitter to the time (to avoid lots of systems checking in at the same frequency all the time). After that it resumes the 4 hour checkins.
-- Brad Hinson <bhin...@redhat.com> Worldwide System z Sales, Strategy, Marketing Red Hat, Inc. +1 (919) 360-0443 http://www.redhat.com/z On Aug 18, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: > 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
