The software described in this documentation is either no longer supported or is in extended support.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade to a current supported release.
This section describes how to diagnose and fix problems that you might encounter on a Spacewalk server.
For information about other issues and workarounds, see Spacewalk for Oracle® Linux: Release Notes for Release 2.2.
Use the spacewalk-service status command to verify which Spacewalk services are not running correctly. If a service does not start correctly, this is usually due to incorrect configuration information being entered during installation.
Check the following log files for errors:
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/var/log/httpd/* httpdservice log files.-
/var/log/nocpulse/* Monitoring log files (if enabled).
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/var/log/notification/* Monitoring notification log files (if enabled).
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/var/log/rhn_satellite_install.log Installation log file.
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/var/log/rhn/reposync/* Repository synchronization log files.
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/var/log/rhn/rhn_server_satellite.log Synchronization log file.
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/var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log XML-RPC transaction log file.
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/var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log RHN Task Engine (Taskomatic) log messages.
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/var/log/yum.log Yum log file.