Fixed this. cobbler reposync worked fine from the command-line, but hung on a wget command if run from a cron job.
Turns out there is a web proxy setting in the log-in shell. If you're logged in the proxy is configured and everything works; if not wget hangs. Created a script that configures the proxy, then does the cobbler reposync. Call that from the cron job - everything fine. Thought I'd record my stupidity in case it helps the next guy. Andy Andy Miller wrote: > Folks, > > I've set up a Cobbler server to mirror CentOS 5.4. Everything seems OK, > except that when I do a reposync things hang. > > Having a poke arround seems to indicate that reposync is trying to wget > comps.xml from the repos, but the CentOS repos don't have a comps.xml. > If I kill the wget, then the rest of the reposync seems to procede OK, > but this is kind of stops the reposync being an overnight task. > > Any ideas how I can cure this? > > Many Thanks > > Andy Miller > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
