Description of problem: I have noticed that this config file is strange link Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): osa-dispatcher-5.9.46-1.el5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # ls -al /etc/rhn/tns_admin/osa-dispatcher/tnsnames.ora 2. # cat /etc/rhn/tns_admin/osa-dispatcher/tnsnames.ora Actual results: # ls -al /etc/rhn/tns_admin/osa-dispatcher/tnsnames.ora lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 9 04:04 /etc/rhn/tns_admin/osa-dispatcher/tnsnames.ora -> tnsnames.ora # cat /etc/rhn/tns_admin/osa-dispatcher/tnsnames.ora cat: /etc/rhn/tns_admin/osa-dispatcher/tnsnames.ora: Too many levels of symbolic links Expected results: File should be readable Additional info: Maybe this is intentional, but definitely strange. Could you please advise?
There were two different issues - a bug in makefile which created looping symlink and the link itself which can be safely removed. Fixed in spacewalk git by commit 3ca33e37786acccd57a67c64b3100da1767e44f5 661998 - removed looping symlink oracle instantclient falls back to /etc/tnsnames.ora if $TNS_NAMES is missing commit 8767f0a7f4497ff1154b2c7da3aa5e5c0282a6e3 fixed symlink creation
This issue is resolved with the release of RHN Satellite 5.5. As of September 20th 2012, RHN Satellite 5.5 has been generally available. Release Notes and other 5.5 documentation can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/ The associated Errata for the 5.5 release are: 5.5 Satellite GA Errata - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1296.html 5.5 Upgrade Errata - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1298.html 5.5 RHN Proxy GA Errata - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1297.html 5.5 RHN Tools GA Errata - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1299.html Regards, Clifford - Engineering Manager, Satellite