[Spacewalk-list] error pushing package update to spacewalk 0.2

[puck at i29.net]

I had the same thing when I installed spacewalk for the first time. For 
some reason the installer didn't create a /var/satellite/ directory so I 
have to create it and change the owner to apache.

Jem


David Nutter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:41:37AM -0700, Sean Allin wrote:
>   
>> I'm having an issue on pushing a package update up to spacewalk for 
>> libtiff-devel for CentOS.
>> The spacewalk server is an update from 0.1 to 0.2. Following is the log 
>> message:
>>
>> Uploading package 
>> /mnt/sw-repo/CENTOS/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
>> Using POST request
>> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
>> Error pushing 
>> /mnt/sw-repo/CENTOS/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message:
>>     Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
>>     '/var/satellite/redhat/1/a27/libtiff-devel'
>> Error Class Code: 50
>> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500)
>> Waiting 4 seconds and trying again...
>> Giving up after 3 attempts
>>
>>
>> All other package updates worked ok. Any suggestions on debugging?
>>     
>
> Check the permissions on the /var/satellite/redhat directory and
> subdirectories. If you ran /usr/sbin/update-packages as root, the
> apache:apache permissions required for the upload to work will have been
> replaced with root:root. 
>
> I have been bitten by that issue just today, in fact :)
>
> Regards,
>
>   
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