[Spacewalk-list] Registered CentOS client still pulling updates from mirrors?

[Norman P. B. Joseph]

Mike,

All those options check out.  But I think I see what was going on now,
and it wasn't Spacewalk.  My tcpdump was filtering only on port 80, but
I failed to realize that my client was talking to my server on port 443!
So while I was watching it check all the off-site mirrors on port 80 I
was failing to see that it was talking to my spacewalk server on port
443 all the time.  Operator error!  Thanks for the pointers.  Back to
lurking...

-Norm


On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:34 -0500, Mike Hanby wrote:
> A few thoughts,
> 
> 1. make sure that "plugins=1" is set in /etc/yum.conf so that yum will use the rhn plugin
> 2. make sure under [main] in /etc/yum/plugins.d/rhnplugin.conf is set to "enabled = 1"
> 3. do a "yum clean all"
> 
> Now try it and see if anything changes.
> 
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Norman P. B. Joseph
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:54 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Registered CentOS client still pulling updates from mirrors?
> 
> Hello list.  I'm experimenting with Spacewalk to see how it may be
> useful in managing our Linux environment, and have run into my first
> puzzler.
> 
> Newly-installed/configured Spacewalk 1.1 server running under CentOS
> 5.5, following instructions on the Spacewalk Wiki[1] and the CentOS
> Spacewalk HowTo[2].  I've created & populated 32 & 64-bit CentOS 5
> parent channels as well as Updates, EPEL and Spacewalk Client child
> channels for each.
> 
> I have a CentOS 5 host set to be my test Spacewalk client, registered it
> to the Spacewalk server, and have it subscribed to the base channel
> through the server web console.  Through the server web console I see it
> recognizes a number of updated packages available.  Cool.
> 
> I went through the repos in /etc/yum.repos.d and disabled every one
> represented by the base and child channel subscriptions.  When I run
> "yum check-update" on the client I see the same packages available as
> were listed by the Spacewalk server.
> 
> Yet, when I run the "yum update" I see (via tcpdump) that my client is
> not talking the my Spacewalk server at all, but querying the regular
> CentOS mirrors.  I've obviously overlooked something simple, but I've
> gone over and over all the installation steps and I keep coming up
> empty.  I'm hoping someone here will easily be able to spot the
> embarrassing oversight I must have made.  Thanks,
> 
> -Norm
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UserDocs
> [2] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk
> 
-- 
Norman Joseph, Senior System Engineer              joseph at ctc.com
Concurrent Technologies Corporation                 814.269.2633
Information Systems Management Office (ISMO)



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