Fixed this.
cobbler reposync worked fine from the command-line, but hung on a wget
command if run from a cron job.
Turns out there is a web proxy setting in the log-in shell. If you're
logged in the proxy is configured and everything works; if not wget hangs.
Created a script that configures the proxy, then does the cobbler
reposync. Call that from the cron job - everything fine.
Thought I'd record my stupidity in case it helps the next guy.
Andy
Andy Miller wrote:
Folks,
I've set up a Cobbler server to mirror CentOS 5.4. Everything seems OK,
except that when I do a reposync things hang.
Having a poke arround seems to indicate that reposync is trying to wget
comps.xml from the repos, but the CentOS repos don't have a comps.xml.
If I kill the wget, then the rest of the reposync seems to procede OK,
but this is kind of stops the reposync being an overnight task.
Any ideas how I can cure this?
Many Thanks
Andy Miller