A.2. Red Hat Network Configuration Client; A.2.1. Listing Config Files - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.1 Reference Manual

Appendix A. Command Line Config Management Tools
Option
--disable-mtime-upload
--disable-all
--disable-run
--report
-f, --force
-h, --help
Table A.1. rhn-actions-control options
Once a mode is set — and for many, rhn-actions-control --enable-all is common — your
system is now ready for config management through RHN.

A.2. Red Hat Network Configuration Client

As the name implies, the Red Hat Network Configuration Client (rhncfg-client) is installed and
run from an individual client system. From there you may use it to gain knowledge about how RHN
deploys configuration files to the client.
The Red Hat Network Configuration Client offers these primary modes: list, get, channels, diff, and
verify.

A.2.1. Listing Config Files

To list the configuration files for the machine and the labels of the config channels containing them,
issue the command:
rhncfg-client list
The output resembles the following list:
Config Channel File config-channel-17 /etc/example-config.txt config-
channel-17 /var/spool/aalib.rpm config-channel-14 /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
These are the configuration files that apply to your system. However, there may be duplicate files
present in the other channels. For example, issue the following command:
rhncfg-manager list config-channel-14
and observe the following output:
Files in config channel 'config-channel-14' /etc/example-config.txt /
etc/rhn/rhn.conf
You may then wonder where the second version of /etc/example-config.txt went. The rank of
the /etc/example-config.txt file in config-channel-17 was higher than that of the same file
in config-channel-14. As a result, the version of the configuration file in config-channel-14
is not deployed for this system, although the file still resides in the channel. The rhncfg-client
command does not list the file because it will not be deployed on this system.
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Description
Disable mtime upload
Disable all options
Disable script.run
Report whether the modes are enabled or disabled
Force the operation without asking first
show help message and exit