[Spacewalk-list] Debian client not picking up scheduled jobs

[Cypher]

Good to hear its working now for you. If you have any other problems with
Spaecwalk + Ubuntu/Debian, feel free to ask and comment on my Blog as I
dont follow the mailinglist closely.

Best, Phil

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi Cipher,
>
> now it's working. The reason, the spacewalk packages have been removed is,
> because i forced the installation of rhn-client-tools although dependencies
> were not met. New version of rhn-client-tools depends on "python:any" which
> is not yet provided by anything. So the next time a package was installed,
> apt automatically "fixed" the problem.
>
> Reinstalled all spacewalk packages from debian wheezy (the old ones ;-) ),
> made sure, the directories /var/lib/up2date and
> /var/spool/rhn/remote-script are in place and everything seems good now.
>
> But I would like to know, what prevented the client to "find" the
> scheduled action. Must be somewhere in the DB.
>
> Thanks for your help :-)
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 26. März 2015 um 19:30 Uhr
> *Von:* Cypher <the.cypher at gmail.com>
> *An:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Betreff:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Debian client not picking up scheduled
> jobs
>  hm. I suggest updating the rhn-client-tools to latest version. The
> Debian and Ubuntu repos are really slow getting new versions and some
> packages are missing entirely. Read here how to build the package yourself
> http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/registering-ubuntu-and-debian-servers-with-spacewalk
>
> Besides that, what helped me getting this to work: Schedule an action like
> remote execution and then do rhn_check -vv on the client. Thats also how I
> found the directory was missing where it puts temp stuff.
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de
> > wrote:
>>
>> Hey Phil,
>>
>> just checked... the directory is there.
>>
>> It looks like, the client does not find any action to perform.
>>
>> Regards
>> Robert
>>
>> Am 26.03.2015 17:07 schrieb Cypher <the.cypher at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > Juts to make sure, did you create the directory /var/spool/rhn/ as I
>> described in my blog article ?
>> > Other thing I noticed, your rhn-client-tools is very outdated. I'm
>> using 1.8.26.4
>> >
>> > Best, Phil
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Robert Paschedag <
>> robert.paschedag at web.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> does someone have a debian wheezy (7.8) client running agains a
>> spacewalk 2.2 server?
>> >>
>> >> I installed the "default" debian packages
>> >>
>> >> ii  apt-transport-spacewalk            1.0.6-2.1
>> all          APT transport for communicating with Spacewalk servers
>> >> ii  python-rhn                         2.5.52-1
>> all          Python libraries for the RHN project
>> >> ii  rhn-client-tools                   1.8.9-3
>> amd64        Red Hat Network Client Tools
>> >> ii  rhncfg                             5.10.14-1ubuntu1~saucy2
>> all          Red Hat Network Configuration Management Client is some tools
>> >> ii  rhnsd                              5.0.4-3
>> amd64        Red Hat Update Agent
>> >>
>> >> to connect to spacewalk and tried the rhncfg package from
>> http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/spacewalk-remote-command-execution-with-ubuntu-debian-clients#more-504
>> and activated everything with
>> >>
>> >> rhn-actions-control --enable-all
>> >>
>> >> When I run "rhn_check" on the client, it seems to run only the "local"
>> jobs. Scheduled jobs are not picked up
>> >>
>> >> Any help will be appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Kind regards,
>> >> Robert
>> >>
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