Re: Problems with up2date and rhn registration

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

> John Haxby wrote:
>
> > A little while ago when I created installed RHEL4 beta 1 on a test 
> > machine, I created an RHN account to look after it and registered the 
> > machine with that.   That old account still exists and still has a 
> > machine registered to get updates on the RHEL4 beta channel.   
> > Unfortunately, that particular machine has been recycled.   
>
> Do you have any sort of backups? I think it's been mentioned on rhn-users
> that RHN identifies by /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid so if you have that
> somewhere you're fine.

I don't have backups of the Beta 1 system but I do have a backup of the 
RHEL3 system that I trashed.   I took the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid 
file from that, but it doesn't work :-(   It says that there isn't a 
channel available for my particular installation.

jch