well if your username ans password for RHN are in mrepos configuration you shouldn't need gensystemid you only need gensystemid if you want to register an non RHEL host to RHN and authenticate by the system id if you use an username and password mrepo shouldn't need the host to be registered.
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Paul Brunck <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you but I am still confused. I have entered the rhn information in > mrepo.conf which does not make any difference if the cert is not present. > The knowledge base link looks like a guide on how to create the cert to > distribute to the systems which are registered to spacewalk once it is > installed. I think these files already exist at http://servername/pub. I > have tried installing that package but it does not help. What I am trying to > do is use mrepo on the spacewalk server to create a channel that contains > consistently updated rhel packages, so maybe the problem is that I am going > about this the wrong way? > > On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Paul Robert Marino <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> you can set a user name and password instead >> >> ## Your username and password for RHN channel subscriptions >> #rhnlogin = username:password >> rhnlogin = >> >> see https://github.com/dagwieers/mrepo/blob/master/config/mrepo-example.conf >> for full details >> >> Also the SSL cert is included in an RPM in RHEL >> rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-<Version>.noarch.rpm >> see >> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.3/html/Client_Configuration_Guide/s2-certificate-tool-CA-create.html >> for details >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Paul Brunck >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm attempting to install Spacewalk 1.8 with mrepo and create a mirror of >>> RHEL 5&6 packages to use for frequently spun up development VMs. There are >>> several guides that indicate I should use mrepo with gensystemid to >>> register individual repositories as systems on RHN and then use the >>> entitlements granted to my rhel systems. However gensystemid fails because >>> /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT is not present. It's not clear to >>> me where I get this cert, whether it is included with an official rhel >>> install, or if it is pulled in after using rhn_register, or if this the >>> "key" per se that you purchase with the Satellite product that allows you >>> to mirror? Thank you in advance for any help. >>> >>> Paul Brunck >>> Health Language, Inc. >>> System Administrator >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Spacewalk-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
