[Spacewalk-list] question about patches pushed slow

[David Nutter]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:32:39AM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:

> The problem is that a lot of servers were also showing the ? question
> mark status. (not checking in).
> And I am affraid that it has something to do with the osa-dispatcher not
> working correctly (see my other mailinglist item).
> Is the osa-dispatcher resonsible for systems getting out of sync or for
> not pushing the updates through osad/jabber?

osa-dispatcher just gives the client systems a kick when there are
things to do, starting rhn_check if need be. You can start the osad
daemon in the foreground (osad -N -vvvv or similar) then send a ping
to the system to see it do its stuff. Very helpful when debugging
Jabber connection issues. 

If osad is not running for whatever reason the clients will still wait
until rhnsd checks in and then if there are pending actions rhn_check
is invoked. Maybe start both rhnsd and rhn_check in the foreground on
a client and watch their debugging output during a "normal" scheduled
check in - that might give you a clue why rhn_check is hanging.

Regards,

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