[pca] PCA proxy question

[Jon Whitehouse]

Nevermind... I have tracked down the issue. One of our admins changed the password to the sunsolve account. I had updated the pca.conf file on our proxy server but forgot to update the pca-proxy.conf file...  I removed the wgetproxy from the pca.conf on the server I am trying to patch from and it is working as expected now. Thanks for the help, it helped me pin-point the problem :)

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Jon Whitehouse
Systems Engineer - IT, Server Support
MS 5221
1800 W. Center Street
Warsaw, IN 46580
(574) 371-8684
(574) 377-2829 (cell)
jonathan.whitehouse at zimmer.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Whitehouse 
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:20 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: RE: [pca] PCA proxy question

Martin,

>> Option wgetproxy: http://proxy-server:8080

>For a beginning: Does it work if you don't set wgetproxy? 

Yes. It will grab the file from the local pca-proxy server. However if that patch isn't on the proxy server, it will fail, then try to to go sunsolve and then fail because now it doesn't know how to "get out" with a proxy. For example:

Looking for 121308-16 (1/1)
Trying http://jumpstart/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi?
/usr/sfw/bin/wget "http://jumpstart/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi?121308-16" --timeout 3600 -O /tmp/121308-16.tmp
--11:10:40--  http://jumpstart/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi?121308-16
           => `/tmp/121308-16.tmp'
Resolving jumpstart.nam.zimmer.com... 10.201.214.81
Connecting to jumpstart.nam.zimmer.com|10.201.214.81|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 121308-16 not found
11:10:45 ERROR 500: 121308-16 not found.

Failed
Trying http://sunsolve.sun.com/ (1/5)
/usr/sfw/bin/wget "http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=121308-16&method=h" --header="Authorization: Basic dW5peC5hZG1pbnNAemltbWVyLmNvbTp0b3l3aW5kb3dz" -O /tmp/121308-16.tmp
--11:10:45--  http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=121308-16&method=h
           => `/tmp/121308-16.tmp'
Resolving sunsolve.sun.com... 192.18.108.40
Connecting to sunsolve.sun.com|192.18.108.40|:80... failed: Connection refused.
Failed

> > If I am reading this right it looks like our websense is blocking our access.

> Right, but I have no idea why. Maybe because it's a request to a CGI script?

Might be. I'm taking up the issue with our network guy who runs our "websense" blocking software. I have a feeling if I can "unblock" our local pca server as well as make sure sunsolve is unblocked, the problem will disappear. :)

BTW, Thanks for the tip on perl. I may see if we can update that to the latest so we can use threading.

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Jon Whitehouse
Systems Engineer - IT, Server Support
MS 5221
1800 W. Center Street
Warsaw, IN 46580
(574) 371-8684
(574) 377-2829 (cell)
jonathan.whitehouse at zimmer.com