Re: [Spacewalk-list] New to Spacewalk and Linux

2019-03-22 Thread Jason Ferris
day's Topics: > >1. Re: [External Sender] Re: Help with Visually Identifying a > Spacewalk Server (Larry Clegg) >2. Re: New to Spacewalk and Linux (Jason Ferris) > > > -- > > Message: 1 &g

Re: [Spacewalk-list] New to Spacewalk and Linux

2019-03-22 Thread Jason Ferris
> > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:04:53 +1100 > From: Avi Miller > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] New to Spacewalk and Linux > Message-ID: <2cb2f5ad-cb85-4da5-b4dc-871ff57e9...@oracle.com> > Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [Spacewalk-list] New to Spacewalk and Linux

2019-03-20 Thread Jason Ferris
-list-ow...@redhat.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Spacewalk-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. External Group to System Groups Mapping (Juan Pablo) >2. New to Spacewal

[Spacewalk-list] New to Spacewalk and Linux

2019-03-20 Thread Jason Ferris
Hello, I apologize for being a newb but I've been tasked to setup a Linux patching system and Spacewalk seemed like a solution I could manage. I'm a fairly green Linux admin and am not an expert on Linux systems. Our environment consists of Oracle Enterprise Linux systems. I setup spacewalk 2.9 o

Re: [Spacewalk-list] System not checking in with Spacewalk

2018-10-11 Thread Jason W. Lewis
package. Good luck! -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @ Micro Electronics, Inc. P: (614) 777-2728 | E: jwle...@microcenter.com<mailto:jwle...@microcenter.com> From: on behalf of Ananda Arifianto Reply-To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" Date: Thursday, October 11, 20

Re: [Spacewalk-list] System not checking in with Spacewalk

2018-10-09 Thread Jason W. Lewis
, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1584255 -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @ Micro Electronics, Inc. P: (614) 777-2728 | E: jwle...@microcenter.com<mailto:jwle...@microcenter.com> From: on behalf of Ananda Arifianto Reply-To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com&quo

Re: [Spacewalk-list] System not checking in with Spacewalk

2018-10-04 Thread Jason W. Lewis
Ananda, If you run ‘yum update’ on the server, does that update it? -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @ Micro Electronics, Inc. P: (614) 777-2728 | E: jwle...@microcenter.com<mailto:jwle...@microcenter.com> From: on behalf of Ananda Arifianto Reply-To: "spacewalk-list@redhat

Re: [Spacewalk-list] System not checking in with Spacewalk

2018-10-02 Thread Jason W. Lewis
://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1584255 -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @ Micro Electronics, Inc. P: (614) 777-2728 | E: jwle...@microcenter.com<mailto:jwle...@microcenter.com> From: on behalf of Ananda Arifianto Reply-To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" Date: Tuesday, October

Re: [Spacewalk-list] System not checking in with Spacewalk

2018-10-02 Thread Jason W. Lewis
Ananda, You’ll have to provide more info; that’s not a lot to go on. What changed between Friday and today? -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @ Micro Electronics, Inc. P: (614) 777-2728 | E: jwle...@microcenter.com<mailto:jwle...@microcenter.com> From: on behalf of Ananda Ari

[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-setup --external-postgresql on external RDS instance FAILS

2018-09-25 Thread Jason Hunt
When I run spacewalk-setup --external-postgresql I am receiving the below error and with the details being thin, not sure what the potential issue is; # spacewalk-setup --external-postgresql * Setting up SELinux.. ** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend. Hostname (leave

Re: [Spacewalk-list] SpaceWalk say Satellite certificate is expired

2018-08-08 Thread Jason W. Lewis
. -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @Micro Electronics, Inc. P: 614.777.2728 | M: jwle...@microcenter.com<mailto:jwle...@microcenter.com> From: on behalf of "Valencia ..." Reply-To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 10:52 To:

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 clients not checking in

2018-07-19 Thread Jason W. Lewis
rhn_check manually, which will make this work, but I’d rather get the problem solved. Any additional thoughts on what could be the source of the problem? -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @Micro Electronics, Inc. P: 614.777.2728 | M: jwle...@microcenter.com<mailto:jwle...@microcenter.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 clients not checking in

2018-07-19 Thread Jason W. Lewis
Robert, Thanks for the input, but I’ve already looked at rhnsd, and the interval variable is set. I’ve even tried adjusting it, but rhn_check isn’t even starting, so it makes no difference. -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @Micro Electronics, Inc. P: 614.777.2728 | M: jwle

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 clients not checking in

2018-07-18 Thread Jason W. Lewis
you, -- Jason Lewis Senior Systems Engineer @Micro Electronics, Inc. P: 614.777.2728 | M: jwle...@microcenter.com<mailto:jwle...@microcenter.com> ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spa

[Spacewalk-list] problem with osad after new 2.6 install (take 2)

2017-01-26 Thread jason
d any ideas? again, this is RHEL 6.8 and spacewalk 2.6 Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] problem with osad after new 2.6 install

2017-01-25 Thread jason
restart the services. Jason On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:17:34AM -0800, Konstantin Raskoshnyi wrote: >Check /var/log/messages log >If it shows something like 'error write to db' , then you need - stop >spacewalk >rm -rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/* >Start

[Spacewalk-list] problem with osad after new 2.6 install

2017-01-24 Thread jason
oblem with the /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT can I make spacewalk regenerate this manually so it will work right or what should I do? Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] duplicate system weirdness..

2016-04-12 Thread jason
ok thanks. Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

[Spacewalk-list] duplicate system weirdness..

2016-04-11 Thread jason
ete these systems [y/N]: y ERROR: redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: The following systems were NOT deleted: 110441 110460 spacecmd {SSM:0}> no joy.. Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] problem pushing updates from spacewalk to client

2016-02-24 Thread jason
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 03:46:16PM -0500, Jason wrote: > hey list, Im running a new install of spacewalk 2.4 and im testing it out > with a client thats registered > with the spacewalk server.. If I go to the server and do yum update somerpm, > it works fine.. If I schedule &g

[Spacewalk-list] problem pushing updates from spacewalk to client

2016-02-23 Thread jason
hen I look at the cert with openssl, I do not see ANY server name listed in there.. would this be the problem? should i regenerate a new one? Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

[Spacewalk-list] question about local repos with spacewalk.

2016-02-23 Thread jason
r to /var/satellite wich duplicates all those rpms.. Is there a better way to do this to avoid the duplication of rpms? Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

2015-06-17 Thread Jason Calafiore
of the certificate, use the -k (or --insecure) option. Jason On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Robert Paschedag wrote: > The bootstrap script installs some basic packages so the client is able to > login to spacewalk. For SLES there is an "installation repo" under > "/v

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

2015-06-16 Thread Jason Calafiore
without installing the packages it shows up in Spacewalk. I was wondering is it possible to use the bootstrap script and then push out the required yum packages through spacewalk? Or has someone found an easier way to register existing offline clients? Thank you, Jason *From:* spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Question regarding SLES & RHEL clients registered to Spacewalk

2015-06-16 Thread Jason Calafiore
Hi Bernhard, Can you use the bootstrap.sh script to register the server? Jason -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Lichtinger, Bernhard Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 10:12 AM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Question regarding SLES & RHEL clients registered to Spacewalk

2015-06-16 Thread Jason Calafiore
Hi Bernd, I have added our SLES 11 SP3 channels in Spacewalk and it is working fine. I was curious to know what GPG keys you use. For example in CentOS they are store in /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/. You are able to get the fingerprint with the rpm-gpg command. How is this done for SLES? Thanks Jason

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

2015-06-16 Thread Jason Calafiore
Hi Paul, I checked and found that the activation key seems to be set right. I found the Centos 6 Base channel and child channels including Spacewalk and Epel all configured. If I go to the Activated systems tab I also see my server listed there. Any further ideas? Thanks Jason *From

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

2015-06-15 Thread Jason Calafiore
channel and yum upgrade rhncfg-actions *Error setting permissions for configuration management.* Please ensure that the activation key subscribes the system to the tools channel and yum updates rhncfg-actions. Thanks Jason *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto: spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Question regarding SLES & RHEL clients registered to Spacewalk

2015-06-15 Thread Jason Calafiore
acewalk to manage their servers, do they ever run into an issue where a package conflicts from the vendor causing a support issue? I am overall trying to understand the risks associated with using Spacewalk in terms of Support Agreements. Thanks Jason __ Atenciosamente Waldirio

[Spacewalk-list] Question regarding SLES & RHEL clients registered to Spacewalk

2015-06-12 Thread Jason Calafiore
installed or modified? 3. I only see steps to register OpenSuSE clients and not SLES on this page https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients Are there steps for SLES? 4. Is there a way to register a SLES server to Spacewalk without getting packages from openSuSE? Tha

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

2015-06-12 Thread Jason Calafiore
to automate registration of servers with a script? It surprising spacewalk doesn't have an easier way to handle this. 4. Once I register the remote servers, will i be able to update the spacewalk client packages provided they are subscribed to the spacewalk

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

2015-06-11 Thread Jason Calafiore
is it exactly and how could i modify it as you are suggesting to register existing servers? Thank you, Jason ___ I always include the spacewalk clients in a child repo of my base channels then include it in my kickstarts. Then I can

[Spacewalk-list] Registering Offline servers to Spacewalk

2015-06-10 Thread Jason Calafiore
t out. Thanks, Jason Create Local Repo on the spacewalk Server mkdir /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client cd /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client repotrack -a x86_64 -p /var/www/html/pub/spacewalk-client rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin rm *i686* -f wget

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Issue registering clients CentOS

2015-06-10 Thread Jason Calafiore
That fixed the problem. I don't know why, it didn't get installed when i ran the command before. Thanks Jason do you have the package rhn-setup installed on the system which you want to register to your spacewalk server ? to check simply execute "rpm -qa |grep rhn" On

[Spacewalk-list] Issue registering clients CentOS

2015-06-09 Thread Jason Calafiore
n/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=1-centos-server-7 bash: rhnreg_ks: command not found Could someone tell me why this is happening? Thank you, Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/lis

[Spacewalk-list] Rhnpush error

2015-06-09 Thread Jason Calafiore
you, Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error creating my first channel in Web UI

2015-06-09 Thread Jason Calafiore
Interesting enough, I was using IE and tried in FireFox and it worked. Jason On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Jason Calafiore wrote: > Hi All, > I just did a fresh install of spacewalk v2.3. I am trying to create my > first channel and did the following: > > Channels&quo

[Spacewalk-list] Error creating my first channel in Web UI

2015-06-09 Thread Jason Calafiore
*type* Status report *message* *Validation of CSRF security token failed* *description* *Access to the specified resource has been forbidden.* Thanks Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Signing the Certificate

2015-06-09 Thread Jason Calafiore
cert? - Do i need to create my GPG keys or do I use the GPG keys from the vendors (ie CentOS repo's GPG key, etc). Thank you, Jason > HI All, > I am going through the Documentation for setting up Spacewalk. After > Installing the Web UI one of the first steps it mentions is cre

[Spacewalk-list] Signing the Certificate

2015-06-08 Thread Jason Calafiore
icate" section. I have downloaded the gen-oss-sat-cert.pl. I do not understand the next steps on how to use it. Could someone please help me through the steps with an example. Thank you, Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat

[Spacewalk-list] Satellite 6 Open Source version

2015-05-22 Thread Jason Calafiore
s/735323 I was hoping someone could clarify for me as well as provide me some good resource that includes documentation. Thank you, Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Clients in Spacewalk 2.2

2015-02-27 Thread Jason Calafiore
Hi All, Could someone help me with this issue? Jason On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Jason Calafiore wrote: > Hi Robert, > I've been looking at this solution and I ran into an issue on step 3 > 3) Call the script: spacewalk-create-yumrepo.py (Which I installed in &g

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Clients in Spacewalk 2.2

2015-02-26 Thread Jason Calafiore
nel? Thank you, Jason -- - *From*: "Boyd, Robert" - *To*: "spacewalk-list redhat com" - *Subject*: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registering Clients in Spacewalk 2.2 - *Date*: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:39:02 + -

[Spacewalk-list] Registering Clients in Spacewalk 2.2

2015-02-19 Thread Jason Calafiore
main issue is how to get the necessary RPM’s on the client. I’ve downloaded the spacewalk-client-repo on the Spacewalk server and added it /var/www/html so that I could download and install it from the client. Is this what others have done to deal with this situation? Thank you, Jason

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [External] Re: Spacewalk on RHEL

2015-01-21 Thread Calafiore, Jason [USA]
Hi All, I wanted to follow-up with my prior questions below. Could someone assist me with this? Thank you, Jason -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Calafiore, Jason [USA] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [External] Re: Spacewalk on RHEL

2014-12-23 Thread Calafiore, Jason [USA]
any impact on the configuration? Thank you, Jason -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Amedeo Salvati Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 1:02 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [External

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [External] Re: Spacewalk on RHEL

2014-12-22 Thread Calafiore, Jason [USA]
another method to configure all of this which is more convenient without paying for the full Satellite package? Jason From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Amedeo Salvati Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 9:30 AM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [External] Re: Spacewalk on RHEL

2014-12-22 Thread Calafiore, Jason [USA]
Hi All, Could someone assist me with my follow-up questions? Thank you, Jason -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Calafiore, Jason [USA] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:27 AM To: spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [External] Re: Spacewalk on RHEL

2014-12-18 Thread Calafiore, Jason [USA]
Hi Michael, Any thoughts on my follow-up questions? I'd be very appreciative of your feedback. Thank you, Jason -Original Message- From: Calafiore, Jason [USA] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:31 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] [External] Re: Spac

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [External] Re: Spacewalk on RHEL

2014-12-16 Thread Calafiore, Jason [USA]
lk you would need to set up 2 separate servers for each. Is that correct? - I had heard that RHN Classic is going away in 2017 and moving to Subscription Manager. Will that affect Spacewalk's functionality with RedHat? Thank you, Jason -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-bo

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [External] Re: Spacewalk on RHEL

2014-12-16 Thread Calafiore, Jason [USA]
some tweaks or changes? Thank you, Jason -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mraka Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 4:17 AM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: [External] Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewa

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk on RHEL

2014-12-15 Thread Calafiore, Jason [USA]
Hi, I am interested in Spacewalk and I wanted to know what are the limitations of running Spacewalk on RHEL? If Spacewalk manages RHEL servers do they become unsupported and violate the license? Please give any further details regarding this topic. Thank you, Jason

[Spacewalk-list] Installation and config

2014-10-08 Thread Jason Whitt
May seem like a dumb question any good resources on getting started for the admin that has like 50 other things going on? Sent from my iPhone ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-li

Re: [Spacewalk-list] No packages found by yum although there are packages in Spacewalk

2014-06-27 Thread Macklin, Jason
__ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > -- *Jason Macklin* Sen. Server and Linux Administrator Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. 4300 Hacienda Drive Ple

Re: [Spacewalk-list] PXE failure

2014-04-23 Thread Macklin, Jason
#x27;m not understanding the connection properly? Again, thank you for your time and responses! Cheers, Jason On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > That usually happens when the kickstart sees two different packages with > the same name with different checksums in the same or di

Re: [Spacewalk-list] PXE failure

2014-04-23 Thread Macklin, Jason
dress this issue? I noticed during my troubleshooting that /var/cache/rhn/reposync is littered with old channels that were created and deleted in trying to remedy this problem. How would you deal with this problem exactly? Cheers, Jason On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: &

[Spacewalk-list] PXE failure

2014-04-23 Thread Macklin, Jason
finger on a solution. Any insight into my problem would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

[Spacewalk-list] proxy behind a proxy

2014-02-24 Thread Jason Berry
I am working on setting up a Spacewalk Proxy that bounces through another Spacewalk Proxy: Prxy2 -> Prxy1 -> Spacewalk API calls (registration, `yum repolist all`, rhn_check) all work fine. However trying to get packages or even the repomd.xml fails; rhn_proxy_broker.log shows status code 503s

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Rollback in Spacewalk

2014-01-22 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Upgrading from one major release version to another, for instance 4 to 5, is not "supported" by Red Hat. It can be done but you are on your own and usually it is done via booting off install media or similar. Also there is no real easy method of a rollback aside from a backup/snapshot. I have d

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 1.6 to 1.7 upgrade bug 869985 reappeared?

2013-08-13 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
upgrade finished without a hitch. Thanks again for the help and information. On 08/12/2013 10:08 AM, Jason Nielsen wrote: If I understand you correct you are saying I can upgrade from 1.6 directly to 1.8? I thought it was required to do a step by step upgrade. My objective is to get all the way

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 1.6 to 1.7 upgrade bug 869985 reappeared?

2013-08-12 Thread Jason Nielsen
If I understand you correct you are saying I can upgrade from 1.6 directly to 1.8? I thought it was required to do a step by step upgrade. My objective is to get all the way to 2.0. From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com

[Spacewalk-list] 1.6 to 1.7 upgrade bug 869985 reappeared?

2013-08-12 Thread Jason Nielsen
I am attempting to upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7 and have encountered the following: 'SPACEWALK-SCHEMA-1.6-TO-SPACEWALK-SCHEMA-1.7/007-RHNPACKAGEGROUP-TRIM.SQ - spacewalk-schema-1.6-to-spacewalk-schema-1.7/007-rhnPackageGroup-trim.s

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Clustering Spacewalk.

2013-02-27 Thread Czerak, Jason
ewalk. Czerak, Jason wrote: % Michael, the stability issues you speak of is absolutely not the case with today’s current RAC implementations. Hi Jason, I didn't speak about RAC stability but Spacewalk. The Spacewalk application part is not cluster-aware, caches data there and there and may

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Clustering Spacewalk.

2013-02-27 Thread Czerak, Jason
Michael, the stability issues you speak of is absolutely not the case with today’s current RAC implementations. Paul, Benard: I’ve had spacewalk talking to a RAC cluster about 3 years ago. The WebUI connectivity was fine. There were problems with the background scripts when you shut down a node

Re: [Spacewalk-list] RHN macro to get short hostname

2012-12-19 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
As a side note I have a user created specifically for submitting variables which is restricted to only Configuration Management. Helps reduce the security risk. And no, that is not my satellite password nor the password for the submission user, for anyone wondering. On 12/19/2012 12:38 AM, Pi

Re: [Spacewalk-list] RHN macro to get short hostname

2012-12-19 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Submit a custom system info variable back to the host profile and use that in the config file. I have a bash script that runs during a build that generates the values for variables then submits them back with a python script. ie: #!/bin/bash /root/bin/submit_custom_system_info.py hostname_sh

Re: [Spacewalk-list] can/cannots of Spacewalk: some questions

2012-08-14 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
I am not aware of an easy method of backing up the existing file prior to deploy. You could push the file back to the SW with rhncfg-manager or the like but unfortunately there appears to be no way to submit files from the client to the clients "locally managed" config channel. Odd as listing t

[Spacewalk-list] Remote Command Contents/Path

2012-07-30 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Is there an easy method of changing the default contents of a "Remote Command" or at least setting the default path? Currently it doesnt take on the typical root path and even doing an "su -" within the command doesnt result in a full login hence things like "service" and so forth are not in t

Re: [Spacewalk-list] wrong schedule times

2012-07-06 Thread Tan Jason
Hi Demchenko, I recently had a problem with scheduled jobs not running. What I found was that my spacewalk user account had a different time zone set to the server. So it might be worth checking Your spacewalk account's timezone setting. Regards Jason On 6/07/12 4:16 PM, "Yura

[Spacewalk-list] ISO compliance and change control

2012-06-14 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Is anyone using Spacewalk to facilitate ISO 9000 compliance and if so any suggestions from your end on what you did to integrate SW into the plan? For instance, being able to track Risk Scores for change control and have notes attached to the change control events. Or methods of linking spacew

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacecmd system search command problem

2012-05-01 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Does the system show up in the list of systems but simply does not show up when you search (ie: upper right search field)? If this is the case its probably the "rhn-search" service and its index is not updating. Bouncing SW or rebuilding the index will probably correct the situation. ie: "se

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Report of configuration file differences

2012-04-30 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Assuming I understand what you are after if you can get the action_id you can pull info about the events. I have a very basic script that fires off events to SW and then dumps the output of those events at the command line. The key part of the code is something like: script_results = client.sy

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Foreign packages leaked to RHEL Channel

2012-03-21 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
primarily because you should never have packages cross post like that in my view. It makes little to no sense in my mind. So yes, I agree it is a bug, in my opinon. On 03/20/2012 05:43 AM, Jens Neu wrote: Hi Jason, thanks for the explanation. All, I'm on Spacewalk 1.5 also, is this behavior o

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Foreign packages leaked to RHEL Channel

2012-03-16 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Its likely the fact that when you push errata (from the command line) it automatically applies them to all channels to which the errata has a package reference. Unfortunately when it does this it also pushes the packages themselves to the channels to which the errata are applied and hence you e

[Spacewalk-list] RHEL5, 1.5, Oracle to RHEL6, 1.7, Postgres

2012-03-13 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
I am looking for recommendations on how to go about a major system upgrade from: RHEL5 SW 1.5 Oracle 11g to: RHEL6 SW 1.7 Postgres My first thought was: )Upgrade existing system to 1.7 as per the normal. )Shutdown SW. )Dump db for use in postgres. )Backup data(ssl, jabberd etc) again. )NOTE:

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Profile rollback problem

2012-02-06 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Have you tried running rhn_check using -v and inspecting the logs client side? When I have had package rollback issues on RHEL 5 the error messages in the GUI have largely been misleading. It has typically been the packages not being able to be seen by the client (metadata server or client sid

Re: [Spacewalk-list] serious problem with profile rollback

2012-01-26 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
I use rollbacks fairly extensively both via the provisioning events rollback and via package profiles. Also use the profiles to sync machines. At least on RHEL5 and so far RHEL6 it has been by in large successful. Suspect there is some issue with your channel setup and/or package availability

[Spacewalk-list] undeploy/undo option for config files

2011-12-15 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Maybe this is a bad idea and I know there are ways to "mimic" this behaviour but how about the option to "undo" a single event? For instance, I deploy file foo to a group of servers and now I want to "undeploy" that file but several weeks later after many other events have occurred. Its easy en

[Spacewalk-list] RHEL4 rollbacks missing packages that exist

2011-12-15 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
I have a base 4.8 channel with several child channels. One of the child channels contains the 4.3 release. The test server is 4.3. I up2date to 4.8 without issue. The 4.3 child channel appears to be fine regarding a repocache etc. If I attempt a rollback Spacewalk never claims any packages are

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Snapshot Rollback always redeploys all configuration files

2011-12-12 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
ot; at the bottom of the file. It was redeployed and comment lost. Again this was edited locally and not via spacewalk and it should have not rolled back as there was nothing to "rollback" to. On 12/12/2011 06:02 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:17:37PM -0700, Jaso

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Newbie, question about channels

2011-12-12 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
I am not aware of a way to "sync configuration files" but if you push all the configs you want to maintain into a channel(s) you can simply then deploy all files from those configuration channels to all hosts and be confident they will all be the same. Keep in mind though there are some configu

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Config Management Macros

2011-12-08 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
I create custom system info variables and then create values for these server side during a build or run a script to update. Crude but here is something: This sets the variable for the host its run on: #!/usr/bin/python import xmlrpclib import getpass import sys from socket import gethostna

[Spacewalk-list] rhel4 up2date traceback depsolve failure

2011-12-05 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Trying to run up2date --dry-run -u on a RHEL4 x86_64 4.3 system and Im getting the attached traceback. It would appear its a depsolve issue but I cant seem to track down why. Once upon a time these updates worked and Im not aware of anything about the repos that have changed. Any one have sugge

Re: [Spacewalk-list] RHNSD & RHEL 4 Problems

2011-12-05 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
SW 1.5 on RHEL 5.7 with an Oracle 11g backend. I run rhn_check via cron with the following: * * * * * root if pgrep rhn_check; then /usr/bin/logger 'RHN_CHECK already running!'; else /usr/sbin/rhn_check; fi &> /dev/null 5 0-23/4 * * * root RHNCC=`ps -e -o "\%t | \%a" | grep "/usr/bin/python /u

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Snapshot Rollback always redeploys all configuration files

2011-12-02 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
is on v1.5 with oracle 11g backend. -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jason M. Nielsen Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:18 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Snapshot Rollb

[Spacewalk-list] Snapshot Rollback always redeploys all configuration files

2011-11-30 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
SW 1.6 on RHEL 5.7. Update a single RPM. Check provisioning and snapshots and note the one available that has that single package to rollback. Notice it claims there are changes to be rolled back on: "System Group Membership" "Configuration Files" If you rollback it appears to actually perfo

[Spacewalk-list] Feature Request rhncfg-manager and rhncfg-client

2011-11-23 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Spacewalk 1.5 As far as I am aware neither of these exist with rhncfg-manager or rhncfg-client but I personally would like to see them added if possible. 1)The ability to submit (add) files to the systems Locally Managed channel and/or the systems Sandbox channel. The ability to do this wou

[Spacewalk-list] rhncfg-manager to locally managed channel

2011-11-17 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Can rhncfg-manager be used to push configuration files to the Locally-Managed channel for the initiating host? ie: rhncfg-manager add --channel=local /etc/foo Thanks! ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/ma

[Spacewalk-list] RHEL4 depsolve issue

2011-11-11 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
SW 1.5,Oracle 11g backend, both on RHEL 5.5 x86_64. Updating RHEL 4.3 64bit to 4.8. This has been done in the past successfully on systems that theoretically should have been configured identical from a package perspective and SW client perspective. I am perturbed and at a loss but I am enco

Re: [Spacewalk-list] archiveAction method

2011-11-03 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
chived Actions". Its not that I think these necessarily need to be archived. I would like to understand why so I realize what will be and what will not be archived. Thanks. On 11/02/2011 08:52 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:27:30AM -0600, Jason M. Nielsen wrote: I

Re: [Spacewalk-list] archiveAction method

2011-11-02 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Is that some place else other than under "Schedule"? Again this only applies to the system generated events like those from the nightly reports. On 11/02/2011 08:52 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:27:30AM -0600, Jason M. Nielsen wrote: I do not have one in my

Re: [Spacewalk-list] archiveAction method

2011-11-02 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
06 AM, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:32:32PM -0600, Jason M. Nielsen wrote: This finds and lists the actions as expected. It appears to submit them properly but the actions simply vanish after archiving from the What do you mean

[Spacewalk-list] archive actions retention/limits

2011-11-01 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Due to how frequently the completed actions page is accessed and its load time when there are a large number of entries I tend to archive off actions at a high frequency. What Im curious about and cant seem to find is a method of deleting/expiring archives. While I realize this might, depending

Re: [Spacewalk-list] client side check file managed by spacewalk

2011-10-21 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Thank you! I should have looked around more rather than making a less round wheel. Out of curiosity, any idea about why I would get the two elements returned but only for non-locally managed files with the lookupFileInfo method? On 10/21/2011 02:05 PM, josh.mul...@cox.com wrote: Jason

[Spacewalk-list] client side check file managed by spacewalk

2011-10-21 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
Spacewalk 1.5 Trying to determine the best method of determining if a file was deployed to a client, from the command, while on the client. For instance, Currently I do a lookupFileInfo, calculate a local md5sum, compare that to the SW md5sum and report. This does not really say its been depl

[Spacewalk-list] archiveAction method

2011-10-07 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
This finds and lists the actions as expected. It appears to submit them properly but the actions simply vanish after archiving from the command line when using the archiveActions method. Can someone explain what I am doing incorrectly? Thanks! #!/usr/bin/python import getpass import xmlrpclib

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Public key is not installed [solved]

2011-10-06 Thread jason
rpm -qi on each gpg-pubkey-* to look at each one and see which one is tied to the channel youre having problems with. then look a the "Version" to see which key you need to export.. in my case, it was 6c458859 [jason@HOSTB]$gpg --export -a 6c458859 >/tmp/gpgkey scp the key to host

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Public key is not installed

2011-10-05 Thread jason
I tried the rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release but that didnt work.. how would I import the GPG key of the channel directly ? regards, Jason ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.4 to 1.5 upgrade

2011-10-04 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
On 10/04/2011 01:27 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: Choosing default option without thinking is not good way. Rpmconf help you find rpmsave/rpmnew and can help you to show diff, delete one or the other, but is not magic wand which automatically pick up best configuration for you. Your brain is still ne

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.4 to 1.5 upgrade

2011-10-03 Thread Jason M. Nielsen
changed. On 10/03/2011 11:28 AM, Jason M. Nielsen wrote: I am at the point of rpmconf -a during an upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5. Not realizing I could not go back I have defaulted through each listing. Now there seems to be no way to get back to see the differences. The first file I hit D on but saw no

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