[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-setup creates dead link in cron.d

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:37:05AM -1000, Camron W. Fox wrote:
>
> 	During the execution of spacewalk-setup, there is a module that sets up  
> cron notification:
>
> sub enable_notification_cron {
>   if (not -e '/etc/cron.d/notification') {
>     Spacewalk::Setup::system_debug('ln', '-s',
>                  '/opt/notification/cron/notification',
>                  '/etc/cron.d/notification');
>
> 	However, /opt/notification/cron/notification does not exist. Does this  
> file exist somewhere else, as the link the script makes in /etc/cron.d  
> is dead.

Sorry for late answer: the file /opt/notification/cron/notification is
owned by NPalert, specifically

http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/rhel/5Server/x86_64/NPalert-1.125.17-21.el5.noarch.rpm

Could you check it is installed?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat