From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 20:59:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FB216A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:59:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE8943D31 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:59:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i5AKxTx4001552; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:59:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:59:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Derrick MacPherson Message-ID: <20040610205927.GA2772@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1086900740.17427.6.camel@Mandarin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1086900740.17427.6.camel@Mandarin> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A project that requires a 'heartbeat' type application X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:59:57 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 10), Derrick MacPherson said: > I've been asked to go ahead with a project that will require me to build > several machines, 2 of which are to be used for mysql, one being 'live' > and writeable, the other being a read only backup server. The developers > are Linux people that are used to using an application called hearbeat > that does failover, and I am wondering what I can do in freebsd that is > similiar, if my mysql live server dies, the backup server takes over. I > browsed ports but there's so much there I may be missing something. heartbeat-1.2.1 builds cleanly on FreeBSD boxes and works fine. 1.2.2 looks like it builds but doesn't fail the IP over correctly. I am currently using it to flip between two mysql servers doing master-master replication. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com