Hello team, Following attached a patch to address the issue reported on bug #982673.
Thanks. mmello -- Marcelo Moreira de Mello <mme...@redhat.com> Red Hat Inc.
From: Marcelo Moreira de Mello <mme...@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:32:05 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] 982673 - Fixed rhnsd man page and adjusted the minimum polling interval to 1 minute --- client/rhel/rhnsd/man/en/rhnsd.8 | 6 ++++-- client/rhel/rhnsd/rhnsd.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/client/rhel/rhnsd/man/en/rhnsd.8 b/client/rhel/rhnsd/man/en/rhnsd.8 index aca82e9..50836a5 100644 --- a/client/rhel/rhnsd/man/en/rhnsd.8 +++ b/client/rhel/rhnsd/man/en/rhnsd.8 @@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ available. If any are queued, rhnsd will execute those actions. rhnsd is typically started from the initialization (init) scripts in \fI/etc/init.d/rhnsd\fP. when it's time to poll the Spacewalk server for available -updates and actions. The default interval is every 240 minutes. -The minimum polling interval is 60 minutes. +updates and actions. The default interval is every 240 minutes. +The minimum polling interval is 1 minute. A polling interval of less +than 60 minutes will get your server blocked if you are connecting to +rhn.redhat.com. .PP To check for updates, rhnsd runs an external program called \fBrhn_check\fR. This is a small application that actually diff --git a/client/rhel/rhnsd/rhnsd.c b/client/rhel/rhnsd/rhnsd.c index 5f0711d..2b5a1c6 100644 --- a/client/rhel/rhnsd/rhnsd.c +++ b/client/rhel/rhnsd/rhnsd.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static void unset_signal_handlers (void); static void SIGHUP_handler(int); /* Arguments */ -#define MIN_INTERVAL 60 /* minimal sane interval; RHN will blacklist +#define MIN_INTERVAL 1 /* minimal sane interval; RHN will blacklist if lower, so don't think you can recompile with a lower value than this. */ -- 1.8.3.1
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