[Linux-cluster] Re: fence_xvmd doesn't starts under rhel5.1

carlopmart carlopmart at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 09:14:43 UTC 2007


Johannes Russek wrote:
> Lon Hohberger schrieb:
>> For now, just put fence_xvmd in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>>
>> File a bug against cman and assign it to me.  It fell off my radar.  It
>> looks like basically, we should -
>>
>> * start fence_xvmd if enabled in the config (don't do the xm list check)
>>
>> * fence_xvmd should wait (maybe for some timeout - 5 minutes?  10
>> minutes?) for xend to come up, and die if it doesn't start (so as to not
>> keep running for no reason).
>>   
> why would it need a timeout to die? apparently, if someone put that into 
> his cluster config it should be running wether xend comes up or not, 
> maybe throw a warning. what if xend doesn't come up for a reason but a 
> manual fix corrected that and then comes up but after fence_xvmds 
> timeout. you'd have to either manually start fence_xvmd or restart cman, 
> wouldn't you?
> i think if it's configured it should just start. it would be smart to 
> have it warn about missing xend every so minutes or sthg like that, 
> though :)
> regards,
> johannes
> p.s.: i'll do the rc.local thing, thanks

I agree with Johannes.

> 
> 
>> What do people think is reasonable for a /default/ timeout-on-startup of
>> fence_xvmd?
>>
>> -- Lon
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