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

[Todd Warner <taw redhat com>]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:

> 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

"chkconfig --add rhnsd" adds the service but that alone will not turn ON
the service. That would require a "service rhnsd start". But! The
registeration process actually checks to see if rhnsd is running or not
and kicks the daemon. Therefore it should be running just fine.

You can tell if it is running by doing a "service rhnsd status". If it
is not, please "service rhnsd restart"

An additional "chkconfig --add rhnsd" wouldn't hurt either.

You can see if chkconfig is set right with:
"chkconfig --list rhnsd"

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