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 2.4.
Use the /usr/sbin/spacewalk-service status command to verify whether any Spacewalk 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.
Check the following log files for errors:
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/var/log/httpd/* Are
httpdservice log files.-
/var/log/rhn_satellite_install.log Is the installation log file.
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/var/log/rhn/reposync/* Are the repository synchronization log files.
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/var/log/rhn/rhn_server_satellite.log Is the synchronization log file.
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/var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log Is the XML-RPC transaction log file.
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/var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log Is the Red Hat Network (RHN) Task Engine (Taskomatic) log messages.
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/var/log/yum.log Is the yum log file.