Am Dienstag, 4. Mai 2010 20:19:02 schrieb Cameron Smith: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:17 AM, David Lang > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Tue, 4 May 2010, Cameron Smith wrote: > > > I am currently using Heartbeat to manage http, mysql and a DRBD device > > > between two nodes. > > > > > > I want to also manage Postfix with Heartbeat. > > > > > > What things should I keep in mind in the configuration of Postfix so > > > that mail services are tied to the IP managed by Heartbeat rather then > > > the > > > > IP's > > > > > of each node? Are there any unique things regarding HA and an MTA I > > > > should > > > > > be aware of when setting this up? > > > > My first question is why you need to tie Postfix to the VIP instead of > > just letting it listen on IPANY (which would let it receive mail at both > > the real IP > > addresses and the VIPs). > > > > I have several dozen clusters with postfix on them, and it works just > > fine without needing to know anything about heartbeat. > > > > David Lang > > Well how do you manage mail accounts for users in addition to mail from the > server itself? Where are the files for those mail accounts living? On one > of the cluster nodes and not on the other (non DRBD device)? What happens > to mail for those people when the node goes down?
Oh, you are taking about a MTA WITH mail boxes and a daemon like cyrus doing pop3 or imap? That's, of course, a different story. You need shared storage like DRBD for this setup. And a floating IP address. -- Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff MultiNET Services GmbH Addresse: Bretonischer Ring 7; 85630 Grasbrunn; Germany Tel: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 0 Fax: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 21 mob: +49 - 174 - 343 28 75 mail: [email protected] web: www.multinet.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: 85630 Grasbrunn Registergericht: Amtsgericht München HRB 114375 Geschäftsführer: Günter Jurgeneit, Hubert Martens --- PGP Fingerprint: F919 3919 FF12 ED5A 2801 DEA6 AA77 57A4 EDD8 979B Skype: misch42 _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
