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Bug 541262

Summary:	rhn-client-tools: networkRetries option 0 does not work
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec>
Component:	Clients	Assignee:	Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	0.6	CC:	jhutar
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2010-02-16 12:56:19 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	543511

Description Milan Zázrivec 2009-11-25 12:34:15 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #526450 +++

networkRetries option from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date allows user to
specify number of retry attempts when contacting server. This option
if not honored by client code when it's set to 0.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-9.el5 / <= RHEL 5.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL5, set networkRetries option in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
to zero.
2. block connection to your RHN / Satellite / Spacewalk server by iptables
3. tail -f /var/log/up2date
4. run rhnreg_ks
5. Watch number of attempts your client makes to the server

Actual results:
Client makes five connection attempts

Expected results:
Client makes zero retry attempts

Additional information:
N/A

Comment 1 Milan Zázrivec 2009-11-25 13:42:55 UTC

spacewalk.git master: dd9ffb1e6bc62bb1c8bb80da110ebeeedb722986

Comment 2 Milan Zázrivec 2009-11-26 20:14:19 UTC

Revised networkRetries logic:

* treat all values less or equal to zero as: make exactly one connection
attempt
* treat all values greater than zero as: make exactly that many connection
attempts

According to this specifying one or zero will have the same effect
(i.e. exactly one connection attempt).

spacewalk.git master: 116344e5a23cc1fe7da54f3fb07607de03b1b803

Comment 3 Milan Zázrivec 2010-02-05 12:50:54 UTC

rhn-client-tools-0.8.2-1.el5

Comment 4 Michael Mráka 2010-02-16 12:59:31 UTC

Spacewalk 0.8 has been released