After some time old packages are accumulated in software channels managed by Spacewalk, Red Hat Satellite or SUSE Manager.

Especially at least when your hard drive are threaten to get tanked up you should clean up and remove unneeded packages. For this there is a utility called spacewalk-data-fsck - but this tool only …

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Recent bugs and security issue are mapped to necessary updates in the form of errata. Users of the commercial Red Hat Satellite or SUSE Manager server get these information directly from their distributor. Using Spacewalk this needs to be done manually - fortunately there a script CEFS by Steve Meier which automates …
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If problems occur while starting the Open Source Architecture Daemons the issue can have multiple problem causes. This service is used amongst others in combination with Spacewalk, Red Hat Satellite, or SUSE Manager to push configuration jobs or software packages.

The following problem causes are possible:

• The …

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Red Hat Network Satellite and SUSE Manager are two management suites for the Linux enterprise distros Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

At first sight these products look very similar to each other and there are also technical analogies because the products are based on the same core code: …

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