You are thinking to hard on this problem. You create a MySQL cluster and point local.cf to that. Restart SA and it works. If you pull the plug on the first clustered node the other one will automatically take over. That's the purpose of the cluster... automating the failover.
host files, crontabs, time. These are all things that Murphy keeps in his pocket. Gary Smith -----Original Message----- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:09 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: MySQL server resolution ok - here's what I'm thinking. I want to be able to switch MySWL servers should the main server go down. In my local.cf file I have this: user_awl_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:bayes The server "bayes" is defined in my /etc/hosts file. What I'm thinking is if that server goes down that I gave a cron job that will redefine the bayes entry to point to localhost. So - my question. If I change the IP address of "bayes" in /etc/hosts do I have to restart spamd or will it just start talking to the other server because bayes changed?
