Re: [Spacewalk-list] Building kickstart distributions

2010-10-11 Thread Mike Hanby
If you have SELinux enabled, check /var/log/messages for possible security context errors. For example, you might need to set the context for /var/satellite/jh to something like: system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t Mike -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mai

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registered CentOS client still pulling updates from mirrors?

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Hanby
A few thoughts, 1. make sure that "plugins=1" is set in /etc/yum.conf so that yum will use the rhn plugin 2. make sure under [main] in /etc/yum/plugins.d/rhnplugin.conf is set to "enabled = 1" 3. do a "yum clean all" Now try it and see if anything changes. Mike -Original Message- From

Re: [Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Hanby
0 11:34 AM >> To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com >> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default? >> >> ok thanks, I was thinking thats what I had to do, but I was was >> hoping there would be something more elegant and >> built-in. >> >>

Re: [Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?

2010-09-13 Thread Mike Hanby
This may not be the spacewalk way, but in my kickstart files I have the clients register via: /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://spacewalk.some.domain/XMLRPC \ --activationkey=1-x Where the activation key is the appropriate one for whichever channel the client needs to join. I

Re: [Spacewalk-list] new install of spacewalk not working..

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Hanby
See if this helps: I had an issue just like this and it had to do with the package cobbler-web magically getting installed during a 'yum update' on the spacewalk server. Removing that package got things working again. Here's the message thread that covers the issue: https://www.redhat.com/archi

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Migrating from local XE instance to remote database

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Hanby
We are successfully using the instant client on our SW server that uses an 11gR2 server. -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mraka Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:10 AM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Sub

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-repo-syn not updating last repo build resulting in no channel info in /var/cache/rhn/repodata

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Hanby
Hey Ian, I had an issue just like this and it had to do with the package cobbler-web magically getting installed during a 'yum update' on the spacewalk server. Removing that package got things working again. Here's the message thread that covers the issue: https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacew

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Migrating from local XE instance to remote database

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Hanby
Edit the /etc/rhn/cluster.ini and replace 'xe' with 'orcl' (or whatever sid) LocalConfig.0.dbname=orcl Let us know if that works, Mike From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Coy Hile Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 9:08 PM To: spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk logo

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Hanby
Cool, that is now my wallpaper as well. I really like the sketches and mockups. -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Máirín Duffy Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:28 PM To: Shannon Hughes Cc: spacewalk-list@redha

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Red Hat Spacewalk Server Certificate expiration warning

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Hanby
Yep, I went to google for the answer a few days ago and didn't have any luck. I have added some information to the wiki page to help others who encounter this: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/WikiStart#LatestNews:Spacewalk1.0RELEASED From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spac

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Your satellite certificate has expired. (everywhere?)

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Hanby
If you already have upgraded to 1.0, then the same certificate provided by the link can also be found here: /usr/share/spacewalk/setup/spacewalk-public.cert Here's the altered command using the 1.0 installed cert: rhn-satellite-activate --rhn-cert /usr/share/spacewalk/setup/spacewalk-public.cer

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Hanby
ere are a couple web gui's for puppet as well, I've been playing around with them but don't have the URL's handy at the moment, but that might work too ? Dan On May 21, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Edward Simmonds wrote: > Mike Hanby wrote: >> I'm enjoying the discussio

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Assigning packages to a group

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Hanby
I'm enjoying the discussion so far. We handle this type of scenario using Puppet. The machines get the packages and updates from Spacewalk with Puppet telling them which packages to get and whether or not they should always be at the latest version. Perhaps this capability could be part of the

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problem with taskomatic on new 1.0 install

2010-05-18 Thread Mike Hanby
Aha, same here. cobbler-web must have added itself during the yum update that I performed just prior to my upgrade from 0.7 to 0.8 I know I didn't specifically request it to be installed. Once you uninstalled cobbler-web, did you have to do anything else (aside from rhn-satellite {stop|start} t

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic won't start in 0.8 and 1.0

2010-05-18 Thread Mike Hanby
n't start in 0.8 and 1.0 On 5/17/10 1:45 PM, Mike Hanby wrote: > Figured I'd update the thread with my latest tests: > > I stopped all SW processes and renamed /var/cache/rhn, created a new /var/cache/rhn giving apache ownership and 750 permissions. > > Started everything b

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic won't start in 0.8 and 1.0

2010-05-17 Thread Mike Hanby
m] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 3:43 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic won't start in 0.8 and 1.0 Here's an example of my EPEL 5 x86_64 channel details page: Last Modified: 2010-05-14 05:16:39 EDT Last Repo Build:2

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic won't start in 0.8 and 1.0

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Hanby
From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 3:24 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic won't start in 0.8 and 1.0 Howdy, The last time any of my /var/cache/rhn/repodata w

[Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic won't start in 0.8 and 1.0

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Hanby
While I debug this issue, is there a way from the command line to force the repodata creation for each channel? Thanks, Mike ===== Mike Hanby mha...@uab.edu Information Systems Specialist II IT HPCS / Research Computing ___

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Change from Oracle XE to 11gR2

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Hanby
I finally got around to migrating from Oracle XE to Oracle 11gR2. The operation was a success. Along the way I got to familiarize myself with Oracle again, I hadn't done much with Oracle since 2000. Here are my notes in case they help others on the list: http://flakrat.blogspot.com/2010/04/migra

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Change from Oracle XE to 11gR2

2010-03-24 Thread Mike Hanby
hange from Oracle XE to 11gR2 Mike Hanby wrote: % Howdy, % % I have a Spacewalk 0.7 server that has just hit the 4GB Oracle XE barrier. We have a license for Oracle 11gR2 that I can use for this server. % % Is it possible to do a migration? Something like stop Spacewalk, dump the database

[Spacewalk-list] Change from Oracle XE to 11gR2

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Hanby
? Thanks for any pointers, Mike = Mike Hanby mha...@uab.edu Information Systems Specialist II IT HPCS / Research Computing ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

RE: [Spacewalk-list] rhnpush errors with 'unique constraint (SPACEWALK.RHN_CNP_CID_NID_UQ) violated'

2009-09-09 Thread Mike Hanby
[mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:18 AM To: 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com' Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] rhnpush errors with 'unique constraint (SPACEWALK.RHN_CNP_CID_NID_UQ) violated' Ok, I worked my way around this by using

RE: [Spacewalk-list] rhnpush errors with 'unique constraint (SPACEWALK.RHN_CNP_CID_NID_UQ) violated'

2009-09-04 Thread Mike Hanby
ch -t yum -l redhat -u file:///var/www/html/pub/RHEL4-WS-$arch/updates -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:17 AM To: 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com' Subject

[Spacewalk-list] Any way to lessen WEB TRACEBACK Messages

2009-09-01 Thread Mike Hanby
Howdy, I had a situation this weekend where the OracleXE recovery ran out of space (had it set to 10G). The spacewalk server reacted by spamming me with TRACEBACK emails literally multiple emails a second. Luckily I glanced at my phone and noticed that my inbox had over 2000 new messages and I

RE: [Spacewalk-list] trouble upgrading sw 0.5 to 0.6

2009-08-25 Thread Mike Hanby
On Behalf Of Milan Zazrivec Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:23 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] trouble upgrading sw 0.5 to 0.6 On Tuesday 25 August 2009 18:23:00 Mike Hanby wrote: > not sure why rpm thinks that /etc/jabberd/server.pem belongs to > rhn-org-h

RE: [Spacewalk-list] trouble upgrading sw 0.5 to 0.6

2009-08-25 Thread Mike Hanby
not sure why rpm thinks that /etc/jabberd/server.pem belongs to rhn-org-httpd-ssl-key-par-x, these are the files that should belong to that package: /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr/server.csr /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key /etc/pki/spacewalk/jabberd/server.

[Spacewalk-list] rhnpush errors with 'unique constraint (SPACEWALK.RHN_CNP_CID_NID_UQ) violated'

2009-08-25 Thread Mike Hanby
I upgraded from .5 to .6 and the only problem I've encountered is a unique constraint violation when attempting to rhnpush my RHEL4 rpms to the spacewalk channel. I have moved all of my channels (except rhel4-updates-$arch rhel4-extras-$arch) to using the spacewalk-repo-sync command and they ar

RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Hanby
m [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:08 PM To: 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com' Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk ditto, thanks Rob, I'm up to glibc-2.3.. and counting rhnget is

RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Hanby
d. Thanks! -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:48 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk How did y

RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Hanby
ine 8, in ? from up2date_client import config, rpcServer, up2dateErrors ImportError: No module named up2date_client Any ideas? -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby Sent: Thursday, June 25

RE: [Spacewalk-list] FW: WEB TRACEBACK from spacewalk.lnholdings.com

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Hanby
ewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:12 AM To: 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com' Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] FW: WEB TRACEBACK from spacewalk.lnholdings.com Are these the latest versions? I'm ha

RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Hanby
un...@redhat.com > [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:51 AM > To: 'spacewalk-list@redhat.com' > Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos > Spacewalk > > > > > Here&

RE: [Spacewalk-list] reposync RHEL repositories on Centos Spacewalk

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Hanby
Here's what I do to allow me to download multiple distros / architectures on my spacewalk server. My spacewalk server is running CentOS 5 x86_64. say I stage everything in /var/www/html/pub/- as suggested in the wiki, for example CentOS5-x86_64, i'll create a /var/www/html/pub/CentOS5-i386/yum

RE: [Spacewalk-list] FW: WEB TRACEBACK from spacewalk.lnholdings.com

2009-06-25 Thread Mike Hanby
Are these the latest versions? I'm having a similar issue with the spam from the SW server, although I admit I didn't have the correct settings in my cobbler/settings file (fixed now thanks to your post). spacewalk-java.noarch 0.5.47-1.el5

RE: [Spacewalk-list] RHEL 4 Clients?

2009-06-17 Thread Mike Hanby
good question, I have several RHEL4 workstations that I've not upgraded to EL5 yet and was wondering the same thing. I'd love to manage all of these under spacewalk, but I'm not exactly sure how to get the EL4 update rpms. -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mail

RE: [Spacewalk-list] Channel priorities

2009-06-03 Thread Mike Hanby
I'm new to spacewalk, just installed the server and have a few client machines. I'm wondering the same thing. I've been using the priorities plugin on my systems to prevent the base from getting dorked. Is there a way to set up a hierarchy in the subchannels? -Original Message- From: sp