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.
The following information describes how to diagnose and fix problems that you might encounter on a Spacewalk proxy.
For information about other issues and workarounds, see Spacewalk for Oracle® Linux: Release Notes for Release 2.4
Use the rhn-proxy status command to find out which Spacewalk proxy services are not running correctly. If a service does not start correctly, the problem is usually caused by incorrect configuration information being provided during installation.
Verify that the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
file is owned by root:apache and that its
mode is set to 640.
Check the following log files for errors:
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/var/log/httpd/* Are the
httpdservice log files.-
/var/log/rhn/rhn_proxy_broker.log Is the proxy brokering service log file.
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/var/log/rhn/rhn_proxy_redirect.log Is the proxy SSL redirection service log file.
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/var/log/squid/* Are the squid proxy log files.
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/var/log/yum.log Is the yum log file.