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Re: Some thoughts on Ldirectord...and heartbeat

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Subject: Re: Some thoughts on Ldirectord...and heartbeat
From: "Matthew S. Crocker" <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:21:15 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Malcolm Turnbull wrote:

I know this doesn't really answer your question but you should probably 
switch away from ldirectord and heartbeat.  I had the same type of 
problems as you mentioned.  I switched to keepalived a couple months ago.  
It *is* a much better software package.  keepalived is not bug free but it 
is ready for a production environment.

You can get it at keepalived.sourceforge.net

-Matt
> 
> I've had a few funnies with this :
> 
> Sometimes ldirectord will terminate .. Is this due to un-handled signals ?
> 
> What is the best way to restart on failure ? I'm using an hourly cron 
> job check  to restart on failure
> .. but could sub ld_handler_term be changed to auto restart ldirectord ?
> 
> Also if it does terminate why would you want to tear down the IPVS table ?
> I've remarked out the whole of ld_stop to do this,  maybee it should be 
> a config option ?
> 
> Slightly harder to track down but sometimes the ldirectord daemon is 
> still running but seems to stop  responding to changes to the 
> ldirectord.cf file ? I'm still working on whether it is checking the 
> servers or not at this stage..
> I'm restarting it with a daily cron job to get round this .. anyone else 
> had similar problems ?
> 
> Heartbeat.. probably another mailing list for this but just in case .. 
> sometimes this dies on both the slave and the master server whats the 
> best way of doing an auto restart ? and has any one else had trouble ?
> 
> IPVS has been solid as a rock however... :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Malcolm.
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