Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server?

2019-06-13 Thread Paul Greene
I'm going to ask them to exempt this one. The spacewalk server is very useful for managing large numbers of machines, and it sounds like this would break some of that management capability. On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 2:18 PM William Hongach wrote: > Hello, > > > > It is the service (or related time

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server?

2019-06-13 Thread Robert Paschedag
It would be of interest for me, why this should be shut down? It shouldn't listen for connections. So what security concerns are there? ⁣sent from my mobile device​ Originale Nachricht Von: William Hongach Gesendet: Thu Jun 13 20:15:47 GMT+02:00 2019 An: "spacewalk-list@redha

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server?

2019-06-13 Thread William Hongach
Hello, It is the service (or related timer) that runs rhn_check based on the interval specified in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd. This is how Spacewalk clients check in with the server for queued tasks. There should be a man page available for rhnsd. If you shut it down, the client will not check

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server?

2019-06-13 Thread Paul Greene
What is the actual function of rhnsd? What is actually being lost if its not running? On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 1:02 PM William Hongach wrote: > Hello, > > > > I suppose you could run rhn_check out of cron if you did not want rhnsd to > schedule it. > > > > *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.co

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server?

2019-06-13 Thread William Hongach
Hello, I suppose you could run rhn_check out of cron if you did not want rhnsd to schedule it. From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com On Behalf Of Paul Greene Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:31 PM To: Spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be abl

[Spacewalk-list] Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server?

2019-06-13 Thread Paul Greene
Our security group is telling me, based on a Nessus scan, that I need to disable the rhnsd service. Is the rhnsd service required to be able to communicate with a spacewalk server? ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.red

[Spacewalk-list] Debian / Ubuntu admins: Possible fix for missing Multi-Arch header in Packages.gz...

2019-06-13 Thread Robert Paschedag
Hi Spacewalkers, I think many of the Debian / Ubuntu admins are using (maybe a further modified version) of my spacewalk-add-debian-multiarch-header.py script to inject the currently missing 'Multi-Arch' header into the Packages.gz file. I'm currently testing very much with Uyuni and yesterday,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk-list Digest, Vol 133, Issue 9

2019-06-13 Thread p.cook...@bham.ac.uk
Hi Merphis The “spacewalk-report” tool outputs information in a CSV format. The related package needs to be installed from the Spacewalk repository: # yum -y install spacewalk-reports (note plural "s" on end) The man page for spacewalk-report is in