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My Satellite is failing. Any idea why?
Do not subscribe the Red Hat Satellite to any of the following child channels available from Red Hat
Network's central servers:
Red Hat Developer Suite
Red Hat Application Server
Red Hat Extras
JBoss product channels
Subscribing to these channels and updating the Satellite might install newer, incompatible versions
of critical software components, causing the Satellite to fail.
5.3. Services
Why isn't the Apache Web server running?
If the Apache Web server isn't running, entries in your /etc/hosts file may be incorrect.
How do I find out what the status of the Red Hat Net work T ask Engine is?
To obtain the status of the Red Hat Network T ask Engine, run the command:
# service taskomatic status
How do I find out what the status of the Satellite's Embedded Database is?
To view the status of the Satellite's Embedded Database, if it exists, run the command:
# db-control status
What do I do if the push capability of the Red Hat Satellite stops working?
If the push capability of the Red Hat Satellite ceases to function, it is possible that old log files may
be at fault. Stop the jabberd daemon before removing these files. To do so, issue the following
commands as root:
# service jabberd stop
# rm -f /var/lib/jabberd/db/_db*
# service jabberd start
5.4 . Connectivit y
I can't connect! How do I work out what is wrong?
The following measures can be used to troubleshoot general connection errors:
Attempt to connect to the Red Hat Satellite's database at the command line using the correct
connection string as found in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf:
# sqlplus username/password@sid
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