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Re: [lvs-users] install ipvsadm

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] install ipvsadm
From: "Charlie Williams" <cwilliams.work@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:57:13 -0500
Hi,

I've activated a subscription, and updated everything, however

up2date -i ipvsadm

comes back with this:

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-4...
Fetching rpm headers...

Name Version Rel
--------------------------

The following packages you requested were not found:
ipvsadm


any other ideas?

On Feb 12, 2008 12:23 PM, Graeme Fowler <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:10 -0500, Charlie Williams wrote:
> > Will this also make sure my kernel is correct for running ipvsadm? I was
> > hoping that it was so I tried the rpms without patching the kernel (I am
> a
> > linux newb and that sounds like it could potentially break my system) so
> I
> > was trying to avoid it if at all possible.
>
> The stock RH kernels have IPVS support included, and keep the ipvsadm
> RPMs they suply in sync with the version provided in the kernel.
>
> In your case, given the lack of experience, I'd strongly recommend
> sticking with the vendor can provide - I know it works, because I have
> two RHEL clusters at work and they get on just fine.
>
> The only issue you have is that you really, really need to pony up the
> cash to RH if you want your system to remain up-to-date (as opposed to
> up2date!). If you don't want to, there's always CentOS which is a direct
> clone of RHEL.
>
> Graeme
>
>
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