[rhn-users] Preventing Duplicate Registrations in RHN

["Dr. Günter Schmidt"]

Cornwell, Piers T wrote:

> During the %post install section of our install we run rhnreg_ks with 
> the appropriate options to register the system with RHN however when 
> systems are rebuilt, which happens quite often, a new registration 
> gets created (with the same profile name - the machine's hostname 
> - but a different ID).
>  
> Since it's not practical for us to manually delete old profiles, is 
> there any way to write a script to query RHN to see if a profile with 
> this hostname already exists, and if so, to delete it before creating 
> the new registration (or even to force it to use the old system ID)?
>
>  
>
The easiest way is to create a tar file of /etc/sysconfig/rhn and 
extraxt this file after your system is rebuild.



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