Redhat 5 Cluster suite

[H. Kurth Bemis]

As for keeping httpd and vsftpd running, have you looked at DJB's daemon 
tools?

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

~k

Kenny Lussier wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Frank DiPrete <fdiprete at comcast.net 
> <mailto:fdiprete at comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     I like linux-ha + mon. wonderful in it's simplicity and since it
>     just runs scripts on events you can make it do anything (like
>     restart rinetd )
> 
>     and there's watchdog for ftp and http to kick the box if they die.
> 
>     much more info in the lvs howto also.
> 
> 
> Interestingly, the heartbeat packages, etc. are not readily available 
> for RHEL5 , and compiling the needed pieces isn't as straight forward as 
> it should be. The thing that I like about the cluster suite is the power 
> fencing. I think that the answer here is to accept the fact that if 
> httpd or vsftpd dies, I will need to manually move rinetd. It's not like 
> either of those services die very often, so the likelyhood of one of 
> them dropping without the system itself going down s slim. Also, by 
> accepting the limitations in the short term, it will allow me to define 
> a more long-term project of investigating more robust clustering 
> solutions, and some of these things at the network layer with load balencer.
> 
> C-Ya,
> Kenny
> 
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