{

prereq
at least 20 GB and recommend 80GB hard drive space
oracle java
install oracle java with following steps
alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/java 2
[root@spacewalk ~]# alternatives --config java
There are 2 programs which provide 'java'.
Selection Command
-----------------------------------------------
*+ 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java
2 /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/java
Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 2
for reference
http://wiki.comdivision.com/display/cdconstech/Switch+Java+on+CentOS
}
wget http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.0/RHEL/5/i386/spacewalk-repo-2.0-3.el5.no
arch.rpm
rpm -Uvh spacewalk-repo-2.0-3.el5.noarch.rpm
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic.repo
{
add following
[jpackage-generic]
name=JPackage generic
#baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/pub/jpackage/5.0/generic/free/
mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?dist=generic&type=free&release
=5.0
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
}
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
yum install postgresql-server spacewalk-postgresql
yum install -y 'postgresql-server > 8.4'
chkconfig postgresql on
service postgresql initdb
service postgresql start
{
configure postgresql
su - postgres -c 'PGPASSWORD=nokia420; createdb spaceschema ; createlang plpgsql
spaceschema ; yes $PGPASSWORD | createuser -P -sDR admin'
edit the file /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
add following lines
local spaceschema admin md5
host spaceschema admin 127.0.0.1/8 md5
host spaceschema admin ::1/128 md5
local spaceschema postgres ident
}
service postgresql reload/restart
{
test the connection.
PGPASSWORD=nokia420 psql -a -U admin spaceschema
PGPASSWORD=nokia420 psql -h localhost -a -U admin spaceschema
}
{
tune database
yum install pgtune
pgtune --type=web -c 600 -i /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf >/tmp/pgtune.con
f
diff -u /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf /tmp/pgtune.conf
cp /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf.bak
cp /tmp/pgtune.conf /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
service postgresql restart
}
{
yum install spacewalk-postgresql xml-commons-apis
}
{
spacewalk-setup --disconnected --external
** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend.
Hostname (leave empty for local)?
Database? spaceschema
Username? admin
Password?
** Database: Populating database.
*** Progress: ######
Note: just if this process gets exist with this error (Could not populate databa
se.)
then check the logs in /var/log/rhn/populate_db.log.*
if the errors says
psql:/etc/sysconfig/rhn/postgres/deploy.sql:14681: ERROR: language "" does not
exist
HINT: Use CREATE LANGUAGE to load the language into the database.
then execute following command and rerun spacewalk-setup again
su - postgres -c 'createlang pltclu spaceschema ;'
spacewalk-setup --disconnected --external
}