[Spacewalk-list] register systems

Steve Vargo stevevargo at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 17 15:36:29 UTC 2009


Centos 5.2 should have the same python version. Can you get any client to register using rhnreg_ks
or rhn_register I can't and I get the same 404 error when I attempt to register via the spacewalk web page. 

-Steve

> From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com
> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:30:46 -0500
> 
> Steve,
> 
> >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:24:57 -0500
> >From: Steve Vargo <stevevargo at hotmail.com>  
> >
> >   I have a very similar issue I also get the 404 error
> >   and can't register any hosts. What OS is your
> >   spacewalk running on? I was told this is because of
> >   the version of  python that RHEL 5.2 is using.
> 
> CentOS 5.2, and this is *not* a python error. As I said, it's in the tomcat error log, and unless someone explains this to me differently, I'd say it's a bug, that the whole directory is in the wrong place.
> 
>         mark
> >
> >   > From: m.roth2006 at rcn.com
> >   > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> >   > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:20:16 -0500
> >   > Subject: [Spacewalk-list] register systems
> >   >
> >   > 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.
> >   >
> >   > mark
> >   >
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