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How to Disable GPG checks per Channel in Spacewalk?

Is it possible to disable GPG checks on a per channel basis in Spacewalk? For patching of my servers, I've converted from using local yum repositories on the clients under /etc/yum.repos.d, to registering the client with a spacewalk server. However,…
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Spacewalk rhnreg_ks ssl certificate failed verification

Spacewalk 2.6 on CentOS7 Registering client: CentOS6.8 trying to register CentOS client with # rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://YourSpacewalk.example.org/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT…
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How can I patch dev & test servers with a subscriptions which covers only production servers?

Our organization purchased a RedHat platinum support subscription five years ago, and use it for all prod, dev, and test systems. After a recent organizational change, our management decided not to pay platinum support other than for production…
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Spacewalk, Kickstart, Cobbler, PXE, Dnsmasq

I have installed a Spacewalk server. One of the final features I am trying to configure is Kickstart. I cannot seem to find any definitive documentation on how to set this up in a "real environment". We already have a DHCP server, I would like to…
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Scheduling with yum-cron

I'm trying to configure patch management with Spacewalk of all GNU/Linux machines in my organization, but I'm struggling a bit with the scheduling. Change Management has decided, that the dev/test environments should be patched every Tuesday at 5-7…
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Spacewalk Clients Not Running Yum Updates

The clients registered with my spacewalk server report needing updates but when I schedule a event to update the packages on the clients they never perform the update. The little clock icon appears on the clients and there is a pending event but…
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Spacewalk error: jabberd/c2s[4642]: SASL callback for non-existing host: a.b.c.d

I am running spacewalk 2.6 on CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) and on starting spacewalk with spacewalk-service start I observe: jabberd.service - Jabber Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/jabberd.service; enabled; vendor preset:…
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Spacewalk 1.7 - system overview - 0 packages?

I have some systems, that are long now with Centos 6 channel associated. In the systems overview of the SpaceWalk server 1.7 I see only that all of the Centos 6 systems are ok , and 0 Packages to be installed, except at one server that has an issue,…
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Pinning packages in RH SpaceWalk on Centos 7?

Is there any way to pin rpm packages to versions in SpaceWalk? We have kernels running on rare hardware, compiling the kernel is a pain and we don't want or need to do it any more often than major security. There are a number of associated libraries…
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Foreman 404 while trying to obtain the token

Foreman is giving my kickstart hosts a 404 while trying to get the token. Any ideas what this could be caused by? I tried with wget as well but no luck. /var/log/http/foreman_access.log: -0400] "GET…
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Spacewalk Anaconda Pxe Boot Issue - Kernel Version 3.10... requires linux-firmware 20140911

I'm working with a Spacewalk deployment and have gotten around to the point where I'm looking to boot via pxe using a kickstart file. I've mounted an iso onto the disk using mount -o loop and have created a distro pointing at the mounted iso within…
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Which package contains rhn_register?

Spacewalk has been installed, runs and can be accessed. The expectation was that installing Spacewalk was sufficient in order to run rhn_register. [vagrant@localhost ~]$ sudo rhn_register sudo: rhn_register: command not found The idea was that…
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How to install one package on multiple nodes using Spacewalk?

Currently, when one package would like to be installed on multiple nodes using Spacewalk, a system is selected in the System Overview, an install installable package is searched in the software menu, selected and subsequently installed. These steps…
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Spacewalk/Satellite Server - spacewalk-create-channel

I have a Spacewalk installation and I have mirrored the RHEL6 base repo on my server using mrepo. I created a channel using spacewalk-create-channel --user=me --server=localhost --version=6 \ --update=u2 --release=Server --arch=x86_64…
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Spacewalk - creating software channels

Is there a way to assign one child channel to multiply parent channels, basically I don't want to duplicate channels (EPEL): How can I achieve something like this: CentOS 6 - x86_64 |- CentOS 6 x86_64 - Updates |- EPEL 6 x86_64 Scientific Linux -…
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