Why does satellite-sync fails with '--email' option?
Issue
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When
--emailoption used withsatellite-sync, it fails.root # satellite-sync 11:46:51 Red Hat Satellite - live synchronization 11:46:51 url: https://satellite.rhn.redhat.com 11:46:51 debug/output level: 1 11:46:55 db: rhnuser/<password>@rhnschema 11:46:55 11:46:55 Retrieving / parsing channel-families data 11:46:58 channel-families data complete 11:46:58 11:46:58 Retrieving / parsing product names data 11:47:01 product names data complete Pushing scout configs to all monitoring scouts 11:47:02 11:47:02 Retrieving / parsing arches data 11:47:04 arches data complete 11:47:04 11:47:04 Retrieving / parsing additional arches data 11:47:05 additional arches data complete 11:47:05 11:47:05 Retrieving / parsing channel data +++ sending log as an email +++ +++ sending log as an email +++ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/satellite-sync", line 176, in <module> systemExit_exception(7, "SYNC ERROR: attempting to display as much information as possible:", e) File "/usr/bin/satellite-sync", line 126, in systemExit_exception satsync.sendMail(forceEmail=1) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 376, in sendMail rhnMail.send(headers, body, sender=sndr) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnMail.py", line 55, in send server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 239, in __init__ (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 295, in connect self.sock = self._get_socket(host, port, self.timeout) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 273, in _get_socket return socket.create_connection((port, host), timeout) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/socket.py", line 567, in create_connection raise error, msg socket.error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 5.6
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