[Spacewalk-list] Automatic hardware refresh in Spacewalk

Santi Saez santisaez at woop.es
Mon Feb 16 17:32:30 UTC 2009


El 16/2/09 16:18, Thomas Ellis escribió:

> rhn-profile-sync in cron would do the job... you may want to randomise
> the time each server does this though, since you won't want the whole of
> your estate hitting the spacewalk server at the same time for obvious
> reasons.
>
> For frequency, it really depends on how much lag you want to have
> between the hardware change and the profile update, running
> rhn-profile-sync in cron.weekly/monthly should do the trick.

Dear Thomas,

Thanks for all the tips and advices, we finally add a "rhn-profile-sync" 
call in a custom start script and in a cronjob:

21 46 * * 6             root    sleep `expr $RANDOM \% 600` ; 
/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync

Regards,

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