Well, maybe, maybe not. It depends on how the firewall is set up. I'm making the assumption that you are running Red Hat EL6.
If the firewall rules are all IP based, you may have access to the RHN locations and not anything else. Here's all of the locations related to RHN and their IP addresses: xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com:443 - 209.132.183.44 xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com:80 - 209.132.183.44 rhn.redhat.com:443 - 209.132.183.42 rhn.redhat.com:80 - 209.132.183.42 content-xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com:443 - 184.26.116.218 content-xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com:80 - 184.26.116.218 content-web.rhn.redhat.com:443 - 23.11.106.169 content-web.rhn.redhat.com:80 - 23.11.106.169 The spacewalk server is at the following address: spacewalk.redhat.com - 209.132.183.81. Port is 80 So, it's possible that the firewall is not allowing outbound access to this address. This is just a shot in the dark. Alan From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 4:04 PM To: Alan Pittman; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Install spacewalk - first issue Firewall should be taken into account. Before running rpm, I did 'yum update' without problem. Does this mean there is no firewall issue? Here is the output summary of 'yum update': ------------------------------------------------------------- # yum update Install 1 Package(s) Upgrade 13 Package(s) Total download size: 57 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Installed: kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-279.2.1.el6 Updated: bind-libs.x86_64 32:9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.1 bind-utils.x86_64 32:9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.1 glibc.x86_64 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3 glibc-common.x86_64 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3 kernel-firmware.noarch 0:2.6.32-279.2.1.el6 kpartx.x86_64 0:0.4.9-56.el6_3.1 net-snmp.x86_64 1:5.5-41.el6_3.1 net-snmp-libs.x86_64 1:5.5-41.el6_3.1 net-snmp-utils.x86_64 1:5.5-41.el6_3.1 nscd.x86_64 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3 perf.x86_64 0:2.6.32-279.2.1.el6 tzdata.noarch 0:2012c-3.el6 tzdata-java.noarch 0:2012c-3.el6 Complete! ------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you! Nick ________________________________ From: Alan Pittman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 3:28:47 PM Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Install spacewalk - first issue Just out of curiosity, is this machine behind a firewall and/or a proxy server? Alan From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 3:07 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Install spacewalk - first issue wget not working either. Nick ________________________________ From: Brian Collins <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:34:17 PM Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Install spacewalk - first issue > Hi, I started installing spacewalk and got my first issue. Please help and > thank > you in advance. Here is the issue: > > # rpm -Uvh > http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.7- > 5.el6.noarch.rpm > Retrieving > http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.7- > 5.el6.noarch.rpm > error: open of <html> failed: No such file or directory > <<snip>> > # yum -y install > http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.7- > 5.el6.noarch.rpm > Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager > Updating certificate-based repositories. > Unable to read consumer identity > Setting up Install Process > spacewalk-repo-1.7- > 5.el6.noarch.rpm > | 1.7 kB 00:00 > Cannot open: > http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.7- > 5.el6.noarch.rpm. Skipping. > Error: Nothing to do [] Just for gits and shiggles, what happens when you try this: # wget http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.7-5.el6.noarch.rpm # yum localinstall spacewalk-repo-1.7-5.el6.noarch.rpm _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
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