Unix Revolution

"repomd.xml not found" If you add a channel, or if your RHN cache gets corrupted, and one of your guests complains that it cannot find repomd.xml for jb-ews-2-x86_64-server-5-rpm (for example) - you need to rebuild your repodata cache. Normally this is an automated job - which is exemplified by the fact that you have obviously built out your entire Satellite environment and never had to do any of the steps you are about to do. So - some prep work: Open 3 terminals to your Satellite Server and run: # Term 1 cd /var/cache/rhn watch "ls -l | wc -l" # Term 2 pwd cd /var/log/rhn tail -f rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log # Term 3 satellite-sync --channel=jb-ews-2-x86_64-server-5-rpm Once the satellite-sync has completed, you >should< see the count increment by one.  If you are unlucky (like me) you will not. You then need to login to the Satellite WebUI as the satellite admin user. Click on the Admin tab (at the top) Task Schedules (on the left) fin

I have a host at home with 2 x 1TB SATA disks.  I don't necessarily need the redundancy on this box, but I thought since I was bothering to get my PXE and kickstart working at home I may as well figure this out as well... -- excerpt from kicksart profile -- # Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr # Remove ALL partitions clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda,sdb # Install the bootloader in the MBR bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb part /boot/efi --fstype=efi --size=500 --ondisk=sda part /boot/efi-dummy --fstype=ext4 --size=500 --ondisk=sdb # You cannot define a specific partition ('onpart') if you use 'clearpart' part raid.sda2 --asprimary --fstype="raid" --ondisk=sda --size=512 part raid.sdb2 --asprimary --fstype="raid" --ondisk=sdb --size=512 part raid.sda3 --asprimary --fstype="raid" --ondisk=sda --size=51200 --grow part raid.sdb3 --asprimary --fstype="raid" --ondisk=sdb --size=51200 --grow

This particular post should not be taken lightly, nor implemented without consideration.  I believe our situation might be a bit different than most in that we rely on the clients to "pull" from the Satellite (using rhnsd and rhn_check).  I believe a better solution is to use OSAD - but at this point I am uneducated on such magic. :-( The goal here is to increase the number of Oracle DB connections. /bin/sqlplus rhnsat/rhnsat@rhnsat == Check number of Oracle Processes [root@rhnsat01 ~]# su - oracle -bash-3.2$  ORACLE_SID=rhnsat sqlplus /nolog SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Tue Jul 16 12:03:19 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved. SQL> connect Enter user-name: XXXYYY Enter password: Connected. SQL> show parameter process; NAME                     TYPE     VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ aq_tm_processes              integer     0 db_writer_processes             integer