Questions tagged [redhat-satellite]

Satellite is the brand associated with Red Hat's systems management products. Satellite 5 and earlier are based on the Spacewalk project, whereas Satellite 6 and later are based on Katello.

Satellite is the brand associated with Red Hat's systems management products. Satellite 5 and earlier are based on the Spacewalk project, whereas Satellite 6 and later are based on Katello.

This tag was primarily intended for issues such as migrating from Satellite 5 to Satellite 6 or other issues that pertain specifically to Red Hat's implementation.

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How to clean yum cache for untracked repositories?

I have a RHEL7 server managed by Satellite 6.5. The command yum clean all --verbose shows a yum cache of several Mb for untracked repositories. yum clean all doesn't clean this cache. Is it possible to do so, or the only way is to run rm -rf…
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RHAOS packages on RHEL

I am downloading some RPM packages from the Red Hat Customer site and came across some rhaos packages. I'm not sure what they are exactly. For example: podman-4.4.1-3.rhaos4.13.el8.x86_64.rpm I couldn't find much information about them, except that…
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Unable to update glibc to the latest version

We use Katello/Satellite 6 to manage our repos/pkgs and subscribe our servers to it. In the Katello Web UI it says that glibc-2.12-1.212.el6.x86_64 and glibc-common-2.12-1.212.el6.x86_64 is an applicable update on the system, I'll then click to…
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YUM ERROR: Failed to retrieve group file for repository: rhel-x86_64-server-7

A week ago, a yum update on all my Rehdat 7 servers, outputs the following error: Error: Failed to retrieve group file for repository: rhel-x86_64-server-7 I tried doing a yum clean all, but that did not work. I suspect it's a problem with the the…
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Redhat Satellite 6 - valueerror new value non-existent xfs filesystem

When trying to provision a CentOS 7 system with the RedHat Satellite 6.2.9 I got the following error: ... ValueError: new value non-existent xfs filesystem is not valid as a default fs type Pane is dead Can anyone help?
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Automatically input "yes" on the bash file

Slurm is workload manager. There are two kinds of modes to run job, interactive(srun) and batch mode(sbatch). When using interactive mode, one needs to leave the terminal open which may lead extra burden to the remote terminal(laptop). However,…
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Store PATH as a variable in centos 7 script

I want to write a script that allows the user to enter a specific file path to use this variable with the find command I tried this but it seems that my syntax is not right enter file path : $PATH find $PATH -size +1M -exec rm {}\; and what if I…
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How should I grant a user the privilege to restart the nagios services?

What is the best way to grant user an access so they can restart the nagios services? I have added in visudo USER ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/service ServiceName * But that did not work, I am using Red hat 6, User name is ahmed Service name :…
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Satellite 5.7 (Spacewalk 2.3.2) not allowing scripts to be run from upload

I'm trying to make my Satellite 5.7 server installation more secure. I'd like to turn off the function to run scripts from https://mysatserver/pub/upload/up without breaking Satellite. The dir looks like this -rw-r--r--. root root …
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RHEL Satellite Server 5.5 and EPEL Sync Issue (gzip vs. bz2 with manifest.xml)

Client is stuck on RHEL Satellite Server 5.5 (Way EOL) and runs EPEL as a child channel. Long not updated. Other variables, Python 2.6, Redhat 6.9 But when trying to update the EPEL repo (spacewalk-repo-sync) it fails at the end with a gzip error…
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I am getting following error , when I am running a JBOSS server?

I am Installed Jboss in my machine. But, While I am running I am getting following issue. 10:36:15,667 ERROR [org.jboss.as.process.Server:IDMDomain.status] (ProcessController-threads - 3) JBAS012006: Failed to send data bytes to process…
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Forbidden You don't have permission to access on this server

I am working on Satellite 6.2 and I have moved like 200+GB of custom repositories to the local machine. These sub directories and files are under /home/import/XX directory, because this dir is on a different disk. Anyways, so under the…
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Unable to boot after updating the kernel rhel 6.7

I am having a Red Hat 6.7 running on VM which I updated with the latest version kernel-2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64. but after this update I received the below error: kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown…
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RHUI 2.1 Error Downloading the repo

We are facing this error on RHUI when downloading the repo. unable to find any solution on Red Hat site there is one link which guides us to edit some file for proxy settings. but we done have any proxy settings in our ENV, we are directly connected…
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Can yum be configured to import keys for non-Red Hat repositories?

If I build a new RHEL server (whichever version, doesn't matter) and then attempt to install packages from either RHN or Satellite via yum I'm prompted to accept the RHN GPG key. In our case, this would be Satellite. However, if I import my own…
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