Re: [rhn-users] Is rhnsd *on* by default?

[Mihai Ibanescu <misa redhat com>]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Les Bell wrote:

> Yesterday I upgraded a squid proxy to RH 7.3 at my daughter's school, and
> registered it with RHN using an education account. On the first attempt, I
> forgot that all schools here are protected by a govt-operated firewall, and
> so the connection timed out. I re-ran rhn_register with the --configure
> option, set the proxy, and registration proceeded normally.
> 
> Now the machine shows up on rhn.redhat.com, the hardware and package
> inventory are all there, but since the initial registration, the machine
> has not checked in to pick up upgraded packages.
> 
> Because the machine is inside a firewall, I'm going to have to physically
> go in there to troubleshoot, possibly in a short gap between classes. A
> couple of quick questions to get me looking in the right direction:
> 
> 1. I presume that rhn_register --configure also takes care of proxy
> configuration for rhnsd?

Yes, up2date should import rhn_register's configuration.

> 2. I didn't do a "chkconfig rhnsd on". Is rhnsd enabled by default?

up2date's postinstall scriptlet does a chkconfig --add rhnsd. I _believe_ 
this also turns the service on, I'll have to double-check thuugh.

Cheers,
Misa