Mike, >Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:58:22 -0500 >From: "Michael ORourke" <[email protected]> >From Mairin >From: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:43 PM <snip> >>>> There must be *something* that I need to do to make the >>>> profile, so I can set up a push. >>> >>>By setting up a push, do you mean configuring the client for >>>OSAD? >>> >>>https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OSADSetup >> >> What is OSAD? I saw setup instructions for it, but nothing that told me in >> the client setup docs what it was, or why it was needed, at least in the >> client setup docs, which end with the registration. Is this a daemon that >> needs to run on the client? Is it needed on the server, as well? <snip> >> I'd have to rerun it. First, though, could you tell me, or point me to a >> doc, that tells me about OSAD, other than just how to set it up? > >You definetly want OSAD running, on both the client and the server. Because >the rhnsd daemon defaults to 'checking in' every 240 minutes. So if you >schedule a push, reboot, or a remote command on the client from the >spacewalk server, it may take up to 4 hours before it executes. What OSAD >does is check with the server to see if there are any pending operations >scheduled for it, if so then it executes /usr/sbin/rhn_check (same thing >that the rhnsd daemon does when it wakes up).
You're confusing me: on the server, do I want the osad-dispatcher, or *both* the osad-dispatcher and osad? mark _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
