Just a perspective from the one who set up whimsy vm 1 though 4. When I was setting up whimsy 3 and 4, I updated those scripts to send data to whimsy n-1 and n. Once the setup was completed, I removed n-1 from the instructions.
The issue is one of timing. If one copies over the contents of various directories, and then later updates the DNS, there may be missing updates. - Sam Ruby On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:12 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are two cronjobs on hermes that copy data to whimsy: > > listmodsubs.sh > - copies data files to whimsy.apache.org:/srv/subscriptions/ > > whimsy_qmail_ids.sh > - writes data to whimsy-vm4.apache.org:/srv/subscriptions/qmail.ids > > It would be nice if there were no need to update these scripts when > the Whimsy VM is updated. > > I propose to update whimsy_qmail_ids.sh to use the generic address. > Both scripts would then only send data to the current master server. > > For testing the new server, one can just copy over the contents of > /srv/subscriptions. > > When DNS is flipped, hermes would start to update the new master. > > Does that make sense? > > S.
