Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstartable Distributions Error

You can usually troubleshoot this by visiting the kickstart URL, at a total guess it could be because of a comment in your kickstart :) Thanks Alex On 11 April 2014 14:18, Dhaval Oza dhaval@i-link.co.in wrote: Dear Sir, When I am creating Kickstartable Distributions it is generating

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - Upload kickstart file fails

Have you tried to visit the url of the kickstart directly (not through the interface just directly), it sometimes tells you more information On 24 April 2014 06:27, Reed, Steven steven.r...@transport.nsw.gov.auwrote: Hi All, Am attempting to migrate from 1.9 to 2.1 all seems OK but when

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstarts disappearing after reboot not working

Morning, Are the kick-starts disappearing in the PXE cobbler screen or in the web interface? (Im thinking it may need a cobbler sync), also are the text files preserved in /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/wizard/ and /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/snippets/1/ Alex On 29 May 2014 02:32, Reed, Steven

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Activation key and Spacewalk Default

Have you got some child channels set on the activation key? (activation keys - key - child channels) And his it registered with them? (systems - system - software - software_channels) Alex On 29 July 2014 15:02, Massimo Mad mad196...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I installed spacewalk and having

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cannot remove software channel cuz kickstarts associated.

I think you want something like this for i in `spacecmd kickstart_list`; do echo _ ; echo Kickstart : $i; spacecmd kickstart_listchildchannels $i; echo _; done which will chuck out this sorta thing _ Kickstart : 1_Centos6_5Fresh INFO: Connected to https://localhost/rpc/api as

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problem with repos

Whats in your logs? Manage Software Channels - Channel - Last sync time should start with Sync started: Tue May 6 12:24:47 2014 ['/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync', '--channel', '', '--type', 'yum'] Repo URL: Packages in repo: 10766 Packages already synced: 0 Packages to sync:

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problem with repos

? From:Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk To:spacewalk-list@redhat.com Date:08/29/2014 11:21 AM Subject:Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problem with repos Sent by:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com -- Whats in your logs? Manage

Re: [Spacewalk-list] problems with installation (postgresql)

You could try export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 Then installing, outa curiosity why you using 5 over 6 :)? On 29 August 2014 23:38, WADDINGHAM, CORY cw7...@att.com wrote: I’m not sure if this is a question for the Spacewalk list, or if I should

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Upgrade from 1.9 to 2.2

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade In most cases it's possible to perform Package upgrade and Schema upgrade steps from any previous version to the latest one directly (e.g. from 1.6 to 2.2). Make sure you have a valid backup in case anything will go wrong. Really recommend

Re: [Spacewalk-list] EPEL 6 for Oracle

did you add the channel to the Server in spacewalk systems-system? you need to tell spacewalk to do things, it never does stuff automagically if the base kick-start / activation key changes On 3 September 2014 14:39, Royee Tager royee...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean? I added the new

Re: [Spacewalk-list] EPEL 6 for Oracle

3, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk wrote: did you add the channel to the Server in spacewalk systems-system? you need to tell spacewalk to do things, it never does stuff automagically if the base kick-start / activation key changes On 3 September 2014 14:39, Royee

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Repositories fail to sync

you tried syncing it manually? $ spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos_6.5_x64_updates On 25 September 2014 21:21, John Trump trum...@gmail.com wrote: I recently upgraded to spacewalk 2.2 from 1.8. When I try to sync custom channels I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Any spacecmd example about getting hardware info from Satellite ?

you know it has a help right ;)? spacecmd {SSM:0} system_listhardware On 26 September 2014 12:20, Przemyslaw Bak p@cmcmarkets.com wrote: Hi all, We are trying to get some hardware info from our Satellite 5.6 system. Ideally it would be good to get vendor, dmi data, etc. Can

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Any spacecmd example about getting hardware info from Satellite ?

-list-boun...@redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Alexander Innes *Sent:* 26 September 2014 14:16 *To:* spacewalk-list@redhat.com *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Any spacecmd example about getting hardware info from Satellite ? you know it has a help right ;)? spacecmd {SSM:0} system_listhardware

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Repositories fail to sync

trum...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools md5sum reposync.py b1b9cc03f214e831618f2342fa30e922 reposync.py On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk wrote: Hmm, any different error messages when you do it manually? Off

Re: [Spacewalk-list] kickstart tree after repo sync using

Specifically the create distrobution step :), you need to do this on top of the repo create. You grab a copy of the iso, make its dir, mount it mkdir -p /var/distro-trees/centos-64-64/ mount -o loop ~/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso /var/distro-trees/centos-64-64/ After this create the

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.2 crash when adding client (fedora 20)

selinux/ iptables maybe? On 7 October 2014 19:06, nat...@nathanpeters.com wrote: Hi, I am new to spacewalk so I was hoping someone with some experience could help me sort out an issue that I am having. I have followed the instructions on the spacewalk wiki for installing. I current have

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Installation and config

I wrote a bit on this :) (oops in advance if the hyperlinks dont copy) snip The Fedora Hosted https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/ page and corresponding wiki contains everything you need to get up and started. Its one of the best resources to check documentation as its the official home! Another

Re: [Spacewalk-list] upload config file limit problem

I think what your looking for is in: [root@spacewalk ~]# vim /etc/rhn/rhn.conf # Increase max web upload +web.maximum_config_file_size=2048 On 14 October 2014 14:03, Uğur Engin m...@ugurengin.com wrote: Hi everyone who using the Spacewalk, I am getting the following error message while

Re: [Spacewalk-list] upload config file limit problem

I didnt know about that one! +1 to you :), its not in the man page strangely, where did you find it? On 14 October 2014 15:28, Glen Collins glenc2...@comcast.net wrote: I would do both...One for the GUI and from for an upload from the server or client... web.maximum_config_file_size =

Re: [Spacewalk-list] New install, no graphics

which gifs /images dont work ? The best method o troubleshooting this would probley get the source of the missing image, visit it directly (check for a browser bug), if this doesnt work, compare the permisons of the image to a working image, if they look the same compare the SELinux Context :)

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Software packages refresh ?

think you need to run rhn-profile-sync rhn-profile-sync - Update system information on Spacewalk server. rhn-profile-sync updates data about installed packages, machine hardware, and virtual guest instances (if virtualization is enabled). on the clients On 17 October 2014 10:31,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] No Kickstartable Channels/Tree found.

You sure its valid under kick-starts-distributions? On 21 October 2014 10:27, Gi Dot gadi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently I installed Spacewalk on a virtual CentOS 6.5. The installation went smooth. I followed the following guides to setup software channels, distribution and kickstart:

Re: [Spacewalk-list] No Kickstartable Channels/Tree found.

, no? Here's a screenshot. http://i.imgur.com/BU2P0F3.png Thanks. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk wrote: You sure its valid under kick-starts-distributions? On 21 October 2014 10:27, Gi Dot gadi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently I installed Spacewalk

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Change Hostname of WebUI

rhn-profile-sync i think is what you want, that updates all the info about the host On 29 October 2014 15:28, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro waldi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Friends Is it possible change the hostname of WebUI, but from system registered ?! Imagine the situation, deploy a new

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Change Hostname of WebUI

Waldirio msn: waldi...@gmail.com Skype: waldirio Site: www.waldirio.com.br Blog: blog.waldirio.com.br LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/pub/waldirio-pinheiro/22/b21/646 PGP: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk wrote: rhn

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Web panel login issue

Tryed a service restart? The DB could have got confuzzeled, is there anything of use in the logs? On 4 November 2014 09:58, Dhaval Oza dhaval@i-link.co.in wrote: Hello, I had upgrade spacewalk server 2.1 to 2.2 in Centos 6.5. When i try to login in spacewalk web panel it's shows below

Re: [Spacewalk-list] How can my CentOS 6.5 be up to date?

if you use the frozen 6.5 you wont get any more updates, unless you reay need to pointing to the symlink ones better. Also rather than using the web interface in future you can use /usr/bin/spacewalk-common-channels -v -u admin -p pass -a x86_64 -k unlimited 'centos7*' 'spacewalk-client*'

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Squid Proxy for Spacewalk

not out of the box, it needs configuring but yup it does, im pretty sure when you isntall the proxy it also installs and configures squid On 10 November 2014 03:37, Glen Collins glenc2...@comcast.net wrote: Hello all. Is it possible to just use a squid proxy out of the box for spacewalk? I

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Upgrade Question 2.0 - 2.2

Yup same tis fine, when you skip a upgrade it does the 2.0 - 2.1 -2.2 behind the scenes for you. just make sure you follow the guide else you may break your spacewalk! On 19 November 2014 10:03, Nahelou Sébastien sebastien.nahe...@worldline.com wrote: Hello I do it in staging and

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Reg:Spacewalk Configuration steps

for email alerts they should be on by default as long as you create an account with a valid email address. Can the box itself send emails correctly? You may need to use postconf -e 'relay.host=X.X.X.X' to configure postfixes mail relay (thats off the top of my head though so it is postonf but

Re: [Spacewalk-list] No desktop menu when connectin to my centos server using realVNC

when you say black do you have a cli login prompt? Does the server even have the desktop enviroment installed? (Theres no need for servers to have X everything's done over SSH) On 18 December 2014 at 17:10, J.W. slone jslon...@yahoo.com wrote: No desktop menu when connecting to my centos server

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Question regarding interface name ensXXXX

Have you tried setting the old behavior using System Administrators may disable this feature by passing biosdevname=0 on the kernel command line. You may need to install the package as well On 18 December 2014 at 17:05, Bidault, Philippe philippe.bida...@colt.net wrote: Hello, When I

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Question regarding interface name ensXXXX

653 / www.colt.net Colt Technology Services, 23-27 rue Pierre Valette, 92240 Malakoff, France *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Alexander Innes *Sent:* 23 December 2014 10:56 *To:* spacewalk-list@redhat.com *Subject:* Re

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Reg:Problem spacewalk client

Hi there, is there any more info in the event history of the client? Have you installed the relevent RPM GPG keys to the client you are installing to :), and what happens if you manually run yum install randompackage? Alex On 24 December 2014 at 04:30, Veera Veluchamy

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Fatal error in client execution

Hi there, It seams that the repo doesnt have a repomd file, you confirmed that the channel has been synced okay on the spacewalk server? If it has which mirror are you using to create it? It may need repairing and regenerating. Alex On 27 December 2014 at 10:15, Veera Veluchamy

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Question Regarding SpaceWalk Upgrade Procedures

I think the second one is correct (we do it internally), the first ones very old and they may not have done updates like they do now, my understanding is when you go from 1.9-2.2 it does all the steps inbetween in the background for you :) On 21 January 2015 at 20:42, james turner

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Fedora 21 in spacewalk

Ah coolio so its not just me :D thanks for that! I know to put this bit of my project on hold ^,^ On 26 January 2015 at 14:15, Stephen Herr sh...@redhat.com wrote: F21 clients (including kickstarting them) should be supported in Spacewalk 2.3. -Stephen On 01/26/2015 07:29 AM, Alexander

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Fedora 21 in spacewalk

you should be able to create a f21 kickstart. There's a chance, it could work. :-) There're definitely no cobbler/codes.py changes necessary. Regards, -- Tomas Lestach Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat - Original Message - From: Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk

Re: [Spacewalk-list] list of systems by uptime?

Yopu can use system_details then parse it to get Registered:20150112T09:27:48 Last Checkin: 20150204T11:09:13 OSA Status:unknown Last Boot: 20150121T11:24:58 or you could use system_runscript to run uptime or w. Alex On 3 February 2015 at 21:46, Matthew Rinella

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Solaris and Monitoring will not be in future Spacewalk 2.3

Ooh, As in spacewalk being aware of nagios? Very very nice :D On 30 January 2015 at 13:23, Grant Gainey ggai...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - I'm not aware of anyone actively looking to provide an alternative to Solaris. For this list, I suspect the preferred

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Latest release - doubt

2.2 is current stable, 2.3 is nightly :) http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/nightly/RHEL/6/x86_64/ On 8 February 2015 at 05:47, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro waldi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Friends Let me do a question, in nowadays what is the latest or stable release of SW ?! I can see upgrades to

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Latest release - doubt

: www.waldirio.com.br/public.html On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk wrote: 2.2 is current stable, 2.3 is nightly :) http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/nightly/RHEL/6/x86_64/ On 8 February 2015 at 05:47, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro waldi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

Yup sometimes it hangs when doing the repodata, you can try rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/repodata/centos_6_whatever softwarechannel_regenerateyumcache centos_6_whatever yum update failing that spacewalk-service restart On 15 January 2015 at 20:09, Paul Robert Marino prmari...@gmail.com wrote: After

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

*also yes it needs to be 100% done On 16 January 2015 at 09:50, Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk wrote: Yup sometimes it hangs when doing the repodata, you can try rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/repodata/centos_6_whatever softwarechannel_regenerateyumcache centos_6_whatever yum update failing

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

as the hostname, so it seems. This gave me a bit of trouble with the osa-dispatcher. *From:* spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Alexander Innes *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 4:51 AM *To:* spacewalk-list@redhat.com *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Unable to register clients

You need to distribute the SSL cert to your clients along the lines of # Install the SSL certificate from the server yum install http://spacewalk.lan/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm# Register clients rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk.lan/XMLRPC

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Unable to register clients

, will I need to re-register all the clients I’ve already registered w/ it? Thanks for your help! Mike Anderson | Systems Engineer | PaySpan®, Inc. Two Ravinia Drive, Suite 1710, Atlanta, GA 30346 | (404) 665-3020 mike.ander...@payspan.com mike.ander...@payspan.com From: Alexander Innes

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

1) centos is virtually same as centos, its needed for both 2) yup On 19 February 2015 at 22:28, Jason Calafiore jason.calafi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am testing Spacewalk and trying to register my first CentOS client. I am following the directions on the main documentation.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] OpenSCAP XML's

Hey there, Redhat has a tool to convert the OCAL to XCCDF somewhere Authors: Šimon Lukašík sluka...@redhat.com , oval-to-xccdf.xslt Sorry I cant remember where i found it but with the author and the name shouldn't be that hard :D From when i was playing with it I made notes of these links (not

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Clients not picking up requested changes, period

Schedual the action then on the server do rhn-chck -vvv. It will tell you what the client's doing, my gut feeling is either SSL errors OR permsions (rhn-actions-control is it?) On 26 January 2015 at 23:16, Chris Swingler ch...@chrisswingler.com wrote: Hey Spacewalk-list! I have quite a few

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Register OEL6 on Spacewalk/Bad Request , attempt #1

my guess is force SSL is on the server, try registering to https:/ rather than http/ On 30 January 2015 at 22:34, dmitry.lozits...@asparona.com wrote: Hello, I’m trying to register freshly installed oel6 x86_64 on a spacewalk server and got this message: [root@client ~]# rhnreg_ks -v

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Clients not picking up requested changes, period

index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm 2015-01-27 10:53 GMT+00:00 Alexander Innes se...@necurity.co.uk: Schedual the action then on the server do rhn-chck -vvv. It will tell you what the client's doing, my gut feeling is either SSL errors OR permsions (rhn

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problems installing spacewalk server - take 2

have you checked if TFTP has been enabled? My install took ~10mins to get past that, no idea why im guessing the server was in a bad mood at the time. On 9 January 2015 at 04:46, Brian Ross brian.r...@asggroup.com.au wrote: Output: # cat rhn_installation.log Installation log of Spacewalk

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Subject: Client shows offline in Spacewalk GUI

SSLError: ('OpenSSL error; will retry', (-1, 'Unexpected EOF')) / client.process(timeout=180) Im leaning toward either the port isnt allowed on the firewall and its timing out, or there is something wrong with the SSL cert (not imported it / its not trusted), or openSSL cant talk to the server

Re: [Spacewalk-list] SSL error

The requested URL returned error: 403 Proxy Unacknowledged Suggests it could be a proxy issue on your end :), you may need to add proxy setting or authentication on your client Also you copied the RPM install to the wget :)! On 24 March 2015 at 14:35, Deepjoy Choudhury deepjoy.choudh...@jda.com

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk web interface modification

what sort of statistics? On 21 June 2015 at 16:46, Arij KHOUILDI arij.khoui...@esprit.tn wrote: Hi everybody, I have a problem, I want to add statistics interface to spacewalk web interface but I don't know how. Please help me and give me some ideas. Thank you for the help.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Several Kickstart questions

Aloha there, The point of kickstart is so you can manually make it do exaclty what you need to get a standard build without having the faff of extra scripts to run at the end :) 1) I use a post scrip to to move the files out of yum.repos.d so that they are ignored, I prefer moving to deleting

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Can't kickstart anyting

Off the top of my head this happened to me when either a) i had selinux configured wrong (you can download it so not this), or B) the wrong (but almost the same) file is being served, something to do with the version on the disk vs the version in the repo's, I cant remember if i copied it from

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Destroy KVM from Spacewalk

you could manage the host, and then send a remote command to it, I can see it being quite dangerous should it work how you describe! On 9 April 2016 at 04:43, Konstantin Raskoshnyi wrote: > I'm provisioning new virtual machines in Spacewalk. I normally can reboot > them,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] yum update-minimal --security is there an equiv option in spacewalk?

There is a spacewalk script which imports the errata, you can then just push sec updates out though the interface. On 10 May 2016 at 19:52, Jeff Baldwin wrote: > Hi Wes, > > I came across this earlier today, hopefully it will be useful to you as > well: >