[Spacewalk-list] Problems installing Spacewalk 1.8 on CentOS 6.3

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:16:30AM -0800, Jon Miller wrote:
> I have excerpts when I last encountered my permission problems, but I'll
> capture more detailed notes during the next installation after my POC work
> is complete. What I saw in the catalina.log was the following:
> 2013-01-04 12:08:17,326 [main] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.common.conf.Config -
> Could not parse file/usr/share/rhn/config-defaults/rhn_web.conf
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/rhn/config-defaults/rhn_web.conf
> (Permission denied)
> 
> Prior to adjusting the permissions, I would only get exceptions displayed
> on the webpage. But like I said, I'll try not adjusting anything at the
> next fresh install I perform and submit a bug if I encounter it again.

The access should be allowed via the group permission:

	# ls -la
	/usr/share/rhn/config-defaults/rhn_web.conf
	-rw-r-----. 1 root apache 8456 Jan  9 03:48
	/usr/share/rhn/config-defaults/rhn_web.conf
	# grep tomcat /etc/group
	apache:x:48:nocpulse,tomcat
	tomcat:x:91:
	#

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat