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Appendix A. Command Line Config Management Tools 189
/usr/bin/diff: /home/test/blah/var/spool/aalib.rpm: No such file or directory
A.2.5. Verifying Config Files
To quickly determine if client configuration files are different than those associated with it
via RHN, issue the command:
rhncfg-client verify
The output resembles the following:
modified /etc/example-config.txt
/var/spool/aalib.rpm
The file
example-config.txt
is locally modified, while
aalib.rpm
is not.
The following table lists the options available for
rhncfg-client verify
:
Option Description
-v, --verbose Increase the amount of output detail. Displays
differences in the mode, owner, and group
permissions for the specified config file.
-h, --help Show help message and exit
Table A-3.
rhncfg-client verify
options
A.3. Red Hat Network Configuration Manager
Unlike the Red Hat Network Configuration Client , the Red Hat Network Configura-
tion Manager (
rhncfg-manager
) is designed to maintain RHN’s central repository of
config files and channels, not those located on client systems. This tool offers a command
line alternative to the configuration management features within the RHN website, as well
as the ability to script some or all of the related maintenance.
It is intended for use by Config Administrators and requires an RHN username and
password that has the appropriate permission set. The username may be specified in
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhncfg-manager.conf
or in the [rhncfg-manager] section of
~/.rhncfgrc
.
When the Red Hat Network Configuration Manager is run as root, it attempts to pull in
needed configuration values from the Red Hat Update Agent . When run as a user other