rhn_check(8) - Linux man page

Name

rhn_check - check for queued actions on RHN and execute

them

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/rhn_check [-v] [--verbose]

Description

rhn_check is a client program that connects to the CentOS Network backend servers and retrieves information associated with the queued actions for this particular system. This script reads the digital server ID from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid and uses that to identify the machine to the CentOS Network. Upon successfull authentication, rhn_check will start processing the queued actions sequentially.

Action Types

The following types of actions are currently processed by rhn_check:
action type description
refresh This action will refresh the hardware or software profiles of this
machine with CentOS Network. This fucntion is called as
refresh(hardware) or refresh(rpmlist)
new_systemid This action is used by the RHn Backend to update the Digital
system ID of this machine with a new one.
update_packages This action will trigger rhn_check into running a package
update for a list of packages queued from the CentOS Network.
rhn_check will use modules from the up2date client to download
the packages, solve dependencies and install the on the system.

Files

/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid The digital server ID for this machine if the system has been registered onto CentOS Network. This file does not exist otherwise.

/var/spool/up2date

This directory is used by up2date to store package headers and RPM packages

downloaded from CentOS Network

See Also

man pages for up2date(8) and rhnsd(8).

Authors

Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>