From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I have a system which failed to check in to RHN for no apparent reason. I cannot find any log entries (via egrep rhn /var/log or checking /var/log/up2date.log). Ideally, up2date would log unsuccessful attempts to contact the RHN servers to assist with problem resolution. Restarting rhnsd triggered an immediate checkin and removed the system in question from the inactive list, and manual runs of rhn_check also seem to succeed. I brought down the network interface on a local machine and ran rhn_check to see whether anything would be logged; nothing appeared at all in /var/log and there seems to be no way to increase the verbosity of rhn_check/up2date logging to include failed actions. It would be nice to have the option to kill -USR1 `pidof rhnsd` to enable failure logging or to have it turned on by default. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Sever network connectivity to RHN 2. Run rhn_check or up2date 3. Console messages result, but nothing is logged Expected Results: Console messages are less than helpful when a program is run on a remote machine via an automated process. Some mechanism should exist by which administrators of RHEL machines would be provided with helpful information regarding RHN faults. Additional info:
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