[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-repo-sysnc and repo sync on web

[Michael Mraka]

olx69 wrote:
% Hi,
% 
% I installed my spacewalk 1.3 server using postgresql on centos 5.5 as
% suggested on web page in a VM (kvm) - arch is x86/64. I created the
% repositories and channels further more. Due to limited internet
% bandwidth I did download the centos repositories base, updates, ...
% epel, spacewalk-client to my host and I did sync with spacewalk by using
% command line
% $ spacewalk-repo-sync --channel=centos5-base-x86_64
% --url=ftp://user:pass@myhost/Downloads/... --type=yum
% After some hours the repositories/channels where in sync. Now, to
% administrate, I did try to sync using the web interface - this doesn't
% seems to work, I don't see any process like spacewalk-repo-sync
% --channel=centos5-base-x86_64 --url=http://centos.mirrors.com/... - the
% url I've got from spacewalk repo url.

Do you have repo configured in webUI (Channels > Manage Software
Channels > Manage Repositories)?

Which url ftp://user:pass@myhost/... or http://centos.mirrors.com/...?

Is taskomatic running RepoSyncTask job?
  # grep RepoSyncTask /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log

% Do I have always perform the sync on command line from now (since I sync
% it from there)? How to investigate?

No. You can run it from taskomatic (set up from webUI) as well as from
comandline at the same time.

% For the (web-api) schedule the same, taskomatic is running (as far I can
% see - I miss some basic about java). BTW, the file
% '/etc/rhn/default/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.conf' has a lib path to oracle
% which isn't used here. Can I remove it?

It's redundant but any changes to default configs (moreover if you are
not 100% sure) will make your life harder.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat