Confused on rhn_check

"Boin, Paul (Cont, ARL/CISD)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rhn.user
Organization Army Research Laboratory (APG)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
We don't use 'Auto Errata Update', but I'm experimenting with a few things, and 
it's giving me some trouble.

In this case, I've got, "Auto Errata Update: Yes" turned on for the machine I'm 
testing against.  I then went in to 'Software | Errata' and made sure a recent 
errata ( httpd ) was applied.

However, rhn_check isn't doing its thing.  I see the traffic making it all the 
way to my satellite.

I saw some mixed reviews on rhn_check in my research, in favor of sticking 
up2date in cron.  Is that a more popular way to do this?




sh-3.00# rhn_check -vvv
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',)
D: local action status:  (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update (or 
package list recently updated)', {})
sh-3.00# up2date --list

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-4...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-4-extras...

Fetching rpm headers...
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Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
httpd                                   2.0.52         38.ent.2          i386
httpd-manual                            2.0.52         38.ent.2          i386
httpd-suexec                            2.0.52         38.ent.2          i386
mod_ssl                                 2.0.52         38.ent.2          i386
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