Re: [Spacewalk-list] Need to setup monthly patching - while keeping base release frozen.

2017-01-12 Thread Sebastian Meyer
Hi Michael, On 12.01.2017 21:36, Shaw, Michael wrote: > Hello, > > I walked into an environment that had no frozen channels and monthly patching > happened by whatever was available in the channel at the time, i.e. if there > was a kernel upgrade then the kernel upgraded. This has ended up

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Need to setup monthly patching - while keeping base release frozen.

2017-01-12 Thread J Epperson
I retired a bit more than a year ago, so I don't have scripting details to share, but here's a conceptual outline of how we did it. Had the same situation when we first deployed spacewalk/Satellite. We (okay, I) created RHSA-test and RHSA-prod patch channels for each base OS. Scripted forced

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Need to setup monthly patching - while keeping base release frozen.

2017-01-12 Thread William H. ten Bensel
Try and utilize the command lines. spacewalk-clone-by-date !!!RESTART TASKOMATIC before running this: /usr/bin/spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle -c $fromchnl --no-children --promote Base -> Always updating from the public repo's date{x}Base -> Frozen at Date {x} *Note, some 3rd

[Spacewalk-list] Need to setup monthly patching - while keeping base release frozen.

2017-01-12 Thread Shaw, Michael
Hello, I walked into an environment that had no frozen channels and monthly patching happened by whatever was available in the channel at the time, i.e. if there was a kernel upgrade then the kernel upgraded. This has ended up causing issues. I have since then locked all of the hosts and

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Alternative ways without OSAD

2017-01-12 Thread Lichtinger, Bernhard
> >> Due to some reason, many of the servers have issues related to OSAD going >> offline time and again so sometimes we just go for a way of running >> rhn_check manually. >> >> So I was wondering, can we have rhn_check in all the servers in CRON ? Can >> it work in this situation ? I had

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Alternative ways without OSAD

2017-01-12 Thread Giles Coochey
On 12/01/17 10:58, Zeal Vora wrote: Hi We use SpaceWalk 2.4 for our Patch Management. Due to some reason, many of the servers have issues related to OSAD going offline time and again so sometimes we just go for a way of running rhn_check manually. So I was wondering, can we have rhn_check

[Spacewalk-list] Alternative ways without OSAD

2017-01-12 Thread Zeal Vora
Hi We use SpaceWalk 2.4 for our Patch Management. Due to some reason, many of the servers have issues related to OSAD going offline time and again so sometimes we just go for a way of running rhn_check manually. So I was wondering, can we have rhn_check in all the servers in CRON ? Can it work