Bug 1091025

Summary: RFE: replace rhnsd with system.timer unit file
Product: [Community] Spacewalk Reporter: Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Component: ClientsAssignee: Tomáš Kašpárek <tkasparek>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version: 2.2CC: jochen, msuchy
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Last Closed: 2019-01-15 07:59:23 UTC Type: Bug
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rhnsd.timer
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rhnsd.service none

Description Miroslav Suchý 2014-04-24 16:05:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
Whole rhnsd is just sort of cron.
In Fedora and RHEL7 you can replace whole rhnsd by system.timer unit file and some bash file which check for systemIdPath in 
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and if that systemid file is readable. And if yes, run rhn_check.
Then whole binary of rhnsd can be removed and it does not need to be persistent in memory.
Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2014-04-26 12:11:39 UTC 
How do you propose to handle the randomization feature of rhnsd with .timer?
Comment 2 Miroslav Suchý 2014-06-17 08:41:17 UTC 
Using AccuracySec?

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html#AccuracySec=
Comment 3 Tomasz Torcz 2015-01-15 17:03:52 UTC 
Created attachment 980574 [details]
rhnsd.timer
Comment 4 Tomasz Torcz 2015-01-15 17:04:47 UTC 
Created attachment 980575 [details]
rhnsd.service

I believe those two unit files fully replace rhnsd.
Comment 5 Tomasz Torcz 2016-04-29 17:04:34 UTC 
RandomizedDelaySec= is even better than AccuracySec.
Comment 6 Tomáš Kašpárek 2018-11-26 09:51:15 UTC 
spacewalk.git(master):
184b1c55e666dd99d3b48916fe9def20d4b354a8
ad57d1fb6ed6cb8ea09b4565786fcb1bfa14ff01
005bfbe00f801e22d8cd93ede9108d1dc3668416
26e37b41f6224eae066f02fd78fad49f691060e1
Comment 7 Michael Mráka 2019-01-15 07:59:23 UTC 
Spacewalk 2.9 has been released.
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/ReleaseNotes29