On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:20:16AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> 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.

That page isn't in Spacewalk. That's a broken link. PLEASE PLEASE
don't start copying things around. File a bug for the broken link please.

Plus, the Register System link will take you to a help page describing
how to register a system via the command line.

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