Re: RHN not synching with up2date

[Ed Westphal <enwestph rochester rr com>]

You're a genius! :-) 'rhn_check' did the trick. I'd done all the rest of
it. What goes wrong that it gets mis-synched? I'm still pretty new to
Linux, but trying to learn all the time in retirement. Worked on Big
Blue systems. Many thanks for the help.

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 11:06, Chip Turner wrote:
> Try running 'rhn_check' to pick the action up.  Make sure rhnsd is
> running ('service rhnsd status' followed by 'service rhnsd start' if
> it isn't running, as well as a 'chkconfig rhnsd on' to have it start
> at boot).  If that still doesn't pick the action up, confirm the
> output of 'grep ID- /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid' (specifically the
> numbers) match what the website lists as the ID of the system in
> question.
> 
> Chip
> 
> Ed Westphal <enwestph rochester rr com> writes:
> 
> > Here's the problem in a nutshell - every up2date that comes through goes
> > on the machine as it should. However, the RHN website tells me the
> > up2dates are 'pending', waiting to be picked up. I've done the usual
> > things -p switch, new security key, etc. I've asked RH support for help
> > and have an outstanding ticket via my paid support entitlement. The
> > Phillipines based engineer keeps telling me to repeat the same old
> > routine that hasn't helped so far. Anyone have some ideas how to
> > diagnose / repair this problem?
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> > Ed Westphal <enwestph rochester rr com>
> >
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