[Spacewalk-list] Problem with Client

[Pradeep Kilambi]

Frank Paulick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i installed spacewalk on centos 5.1 following the instructions on
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UserDocs
>
> in the spacewalk server i configured 2 "main" channels
> one for centos 5 i386 and one for centos 5 x86_64
> each main channel has 2 child channels (updates and extras)
>
> i downloaded all centos 5.1 packages and updates and pushed them into 
> the spacewalk server in the corresponding channels.
>
> i installed 2 clients with centos 5.1.
> one with i386, one with x86_64
> after installing the client packages from 
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lrsmith/Spacewalk/
> i registered both clients.
>
> until there everything worked fine.
>
> updating the systems via commandline (yum) works fine.
> when i try to update the systems from spacewalk i can select which 
> packages to update and the job is being sceduled.
> but then nothing else happens.
>

On your clients /var/log/up2date is probably the only log file you can 
get some info. Also did you try running rhn_check manually on the client 
after scheduling the action on the server? Also make sure you have 
yum-rhn-plugin installed on your clients.

~ Prad


> which logfiles can i check for errors (spacewalk server and client) ?
>
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen - Kind regards
>
> Frank Paulick
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