On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:40:19AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 04:12:12PM -0500, Ryan O'Hara wrote: > > > > What is the purpose of passing a state parameter (backup or master) to > > the ipvsadm stop-daemon command? I fully understand why a state > > parameter is desirable for the start-daemon command, but I can't think > > of why stop-daemon would need this information. Is there more going on > > that simply stopping the sync daemon? > > It is possible to have both the master and backup daemon running at the > same time and the purpose of the state parameter to the stop-daemon command > is to allow them to be stopped individually.
That would explain it. I did not realize that a machine could run both master and backup sync daemons. > > There is no description of the stop-daemon command in the ipvsadm(8) > > man page. Furthermore, it appears there is some inconsistencies in the > > man page with respect to the required state parameter. > > It seems that the documentation predates the ability to have more than > one daemon running on a load balancer. Does the following text make > things clearer? I understand. Thank you. Ryan _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
