[Spacewalk-list] register systems

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

I log into spacewalk. From the first page, overview, I click on register systems. I get a 404:
 The page you requested, /rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp, was not found.

I look in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out, and see the same message that I mentioned a few weeks ago, when I spoke of hacking around with spacewalk, and was castigated for doing so:
Feb 17, 2009 9:06:21 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
WARNING: A docBase /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored

So, unless someone yells at me that there's a good reason not to, that doing so will break something else, I'm going to recursively copy the whole directory to /var/www/html. Last time, I tried symbolic links, and tomcat still complained.

Does anyone have a good explanation for a) why the directory's under /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps, instead of /var/www/html, and b) this wasn't caught long before the release of 0.4? This time, I have *not*, until now, hacked at the system to make it work, but this functionality (or lack thereof) is obviously a problem.

Actually, thinking further, I wonder if this was why both methods of registering a system, rhnreg_ks and rhn_register, gave error messages, even though it had succeeded.

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