How To Install rhnsd on CentOS 8

rhnsd is Spacewalk query daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rhnsd on CentOS 8.

What is `rhnsd`

The Red Hat Update Agent that automatically queries the Red Hat Network servers and determines which packages need to be updated on your machine, and runs any actions.

We can use yum or dnf to install rhnsd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rhnsd.

Install rhnsd on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rhnsd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rhnsd

Install rhnsd on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rhnsd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rhnsd

How To Uninstall rhnsd on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rhnsd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rhnsd

rhnsd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/sysconfig/rhn
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/11df014ed78e3bda98169183b6422df9df694f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rhnsd.service
/usr/sbin/rhnsd
/usr/share/doc/rhnsd
/usr/share/doc/rhnsd/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/aln/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bal/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_BD/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa_IR/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt_LT/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@Latn/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta_IN/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi_VN/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/rhnsd.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/rhnsd.8.gz

References

rhnsd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rhnsd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.