Found my problem. Someone had created a /etc/hostname which was containing a wrong hostname (may be a legacy thing).
Once I removed the culprit, everything was working like it is supposed to. Thanks for your help. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Kinney Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 4:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname The only other thing I can think of is that it was previously already in Spacewalk and it is reassociating itself to the old name. -- Brian A. Kinney Director of Technical Operations Memeo, a Division of UNICOM Global t: +1.408.355.7243 c: +1.408.442.4150 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient only. If misdirected, please notify us by telephone and confirm that it has been deleted from your system and any copies destroyed. If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this e-mail or any information contained in it. We use reasonable measures to virus scan all E-mails leaving UNICOM Global but no warranty is given that this E-mail and any attachments are virus free. You should ensure you have adequate measures in place for your own virus checking. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Francoeur, Louis Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:10 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname Actually no. The “System Name” in the “Edit System Details” is not the same as the “Hostname” in the “System Info”. The /etc/sysconfig/network always been with the proper name. Louis From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Madey Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 5:12 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname You can just click on the server in the Spacewalk GUI, then the properties tab. Here you can update the System Name here rather than having to change tables in the database manually. On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Francoeur, Louis <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The bad hostname at some point was in the hosts file but under 127.0.1.1. Even after cleaning up the hosts and rebooted the server. Still same thing. I got tired of running around and went into the database and did the rename in the table rhnservernetwork: update rhnservernetwork set hostname = propername' where server_id = '1000000000'; I will keep an eye on it to see if it gets reset to the badname again. Louis From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Brian Kinney Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 3:18 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname OK – perhaps we’re looking at the wrong server in this equation. Verify what the DNS “on the spacewalk server” thinks server “whatever” is. If you’re reusing IPs you could simply have old data on the spacewalk box, not the node. You can attach png or jpg files and show us in detail what you are seeing, should this not be helpful. -- Brian This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient only. If misdirected, please notify us by telephone and confirm that it has been deleted from your system and any copies destroyed. 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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Matthew Madey Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 5:36 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname When I do rhnreg_ks I specify the profile name as the fully qualified domain name, like this: rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk/XMLRPC --profilename=`hostname -f` --activationkey=1-blabla On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Brian Kinney <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The DNS may not match the actual “hostname” of the new box. Also, just because it is in /etc/hosts, does not mean that it is the true “hostname.” To find out: On a unix box, just type in “hostname” and press enter. That will show you what the system thinks its own name is. For windows, you have to right click on my computer, then properties to see the hostname. -- Brian This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient only. If misdirected, please notify us by telephone and confirm that it has been deleted from your system and any copies destroyed. If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this e-mail or any information contained in it. We use reasonable measures to virus scan all E-mails leaving UNICOM Global but no warranty is given that this E-mail and any attachments are virus free. You should ensure you have adequate measures in place for your own virus checking. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Francoeur, Louis Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 2:26 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname Hi! I have a strange problem. I have a machine with a name, let say hostname1. When I to the registering of it with: rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-blabla When I check the detail I see a hostname of “whatever”. I have checked the DNS (forward and reverse), /etc/hosts and cannot find why I get that hostname. Someone know what I should do to correct. 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