Re: Another question about rhn-satellite registration
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 12:01 -0600, James Cammarata wrote:
> So basically the config file layed down for /etc/sysconfig/rhn
is
> syntatically wrong and it blows up? Yeah that is not something I'd want
> to address in Cobbler. It's not the right place. Teaching old versions
> of Anaconda new tricks? Yes, because that's the only place we can do
that.
It's syntactically correct, but there was a regression in up2date for
RHEL4.6 that broke things
> For registration questions, and this one, I'd highly recommend
> spacewalk-list, which is the upstream list for Satellite, rather than
> cobbler list.
Yeah, found the problem. The system needs to be able to resolve itself
when registering, so adding entries to /etc/hosts does the trick. I'll
probably just write a quick & dirty snippet myself to address that.
As a more general issue, having a snippet that adds to /etc/hosts the IP
and hostnames for a system record would be quite useful.
James
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