[Spacewalk-list] Any help on this.... Updates not automatically being installed/

[James Hogarth]

Does yum upstae /yum list on the client show the updates?

If not then it could be a yum caching issue of metadata.

2010/1/9 Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com>

> Hi David
>
> Have you scheduled a job (package update, remote command, reboot,
> whatever) and then run 'rhn_check' on the client?  If this works, I'd
> suggest that the client just hasn't checked in since you scheduled the
> job.  Client checkins are 4 hourly by default.
>
> CC
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:21 PM, David Walsh <davow at onthenet.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I have a client and a server.
> >
> > The client is 32-bit Centos 5.4.
> > The server is 32-bit Centos 5.4 with Spacewalk 0.7.
> >
> > I have gone through and setup everything as per the Wiki sites and have
> > registered the client in Spacewalk. I have created some channels and
> child
> > channels. I have scheduled an install of a package or a package update
> and
> > it adds it to the Pending Schedule. On the client, if I run, 'rhn_check
> > -vvvv', I can see it log in, and installing the package or updates. It
> all
> > works.
> >
> > However, if I schedule the install/update/(or even reboot), nothing
> > happens.  The client does have rhnsd running and I can see in Spacewalk
> that
> > the client has checked in since I scheduled the update however, it did
> not
> > run the pending jobs.
> >
> > Where do I go from here ?  Are there specific logs  I can look at to see
> > what is happening when the client checks in? Am I missing a setting
> > somewhere. I'm lost at the moment in knowing where to look.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >             David
> >
> >
> >
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