Issue

• Using the script spacewalk-clone-by-date fails while cloning a channel, producing this backtrace:

##Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-clone-by-date", line 205, in ?
    sys.exit(abs(main() or 0))
  File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-clone-by-date", line 195, in main
    return cloneByDate.main(args)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 173, in main
    cloner.clone(options.skip_depsolve)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 304, in clone
    cloner.process()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 429, in process
    self.clone()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 488, in clone
    self.remote_api.clone_errata(self.to_label, errata_set)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 608, in clone_errata
    self.client.errata.cloneAsOriginal(self.auth_token, to_label, errata_list)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1137, in request
    headers
xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for localhost/rpc/api: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable>