Steve,

>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:24:57 -0500
>From: Steve Vargo <[email protected]>  
>
>   I have a very similar issue I also get the 404 error
>   and can't register any hosts. What OS is your
>   spacewalk running on? I was told this is because of
>   the version of  python that RHEL 5.2 is using.

CentOS 5.2, and this is *not* a python error. As I said, it's in the tomcat 
error log, and unless someone explains this to me differently, I'd say it's a 
bug, that the whole directory is in the wrong place.

        mark
>
>   > From: [email protected]
>   > To: [email protected]
>   > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:20:16 -0500
>   > Subject: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
>   >
>   > I log into spacewalk. From the first page,
>   overview, I click on register systems. I get a 404:
>   > The page you requested,
>   /rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp, was not found.
>   >
>   > I look in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out, and see
>   the same message that I mentioned a few weeks ago,
>   when I spoke of hacking around with spacewalk, and
>   was castigated for doing so:
>   > Feb 17, 2009 9:06:21 AM
>   org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig
>   deployDescriptor
>   > WARNING: A docBase /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn
>   inside the host appBase has been specified, and will
>   be ignored
>   >
>   > So, unless someone yells at me that there's a good
>   reason not to, that doing so will break something
>   else, I'm going to recursively copy the whole
>   directory to /var/www/html. Last time, I tried
>   symbolic links, and tomcat still complained.
>   >
>   > Does anyone have a good explanation for a) why the
>   directory's under /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps, instead
>   of /var/www/html, and b) this wasn't caught long
>   before the release of 0.4? This time, I have *not*,
>   until now, hacked at the system to make it work, but
>   this functionality (or lack thereof) is obviously a
>   problem.
>   >
>   > Actually, thinking further, I wonder if this was
>   why both methods of registering a system, rhnreg_ks
>   and rhn_register, gave error messages, even though
>   it had succeeded.
>   >
>   > mark
>   >
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