Hello all! After lurking for a long time on this list, I have a question about a failover pair I've been tasked with building up.
It's a super straight forward setup with an IP address and one service as shared resources, with one significant twist. The Shared resource is a Scalix mailserver installation. It is managed by 3 init scripts, (/etc/init.d/(scalix|scalix-tomcat|scalix-postgres), and runs on a shared IP address managed by heartbeat The Message store is replicated via drbd and/ or rsync done from LVM snapshots on the primary node. The trick is the hostname: it *must* be identical on both nodes in order for the failover to be successful. Due to the internals of a Scalix message store, changing the hostname is next to impossible and very strongly discouraged (even though it is documented on their website, with strong wording like "This *may* work for you, but it will more likely hose your message store. Remember, we told you not to try this!" So my dilemma is that I need to run heartbeat on 2 systems, both configured with the same hostname (mail.domain.com). I have added entried in /etc/hosts for the "native" ip addresses of the NICs and the extra hostnames that correspond to each, but as far as I can tell, this is not compatible with Heartbeat, as both nodes have the same output from uname -n Has anyone done this, and do I have a snowball's chance in hell of getting it to fly? Thanks very much in advance, Rubin -- Rubin Bennett RB Technologies http://thatitguy.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802)223-4448 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor safety" --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
