Failover-HA-Setup

[Dominic Marks]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:47:43 +0100
Richard <lists at leewelle.de> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 17.01.2007, 13:16 +0000 schrieb Dominic Marks:
> > setup.
> > > I am running heartbeat on a STABLE-system, the failover works fine for
> > > IP-adresses and I am able to see that a
> > > '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start' statement is issued. BUT since
> > > the variables for mysql are not set in rc.conf (Otherwise it would be
> > > started at startup), it isn't starting at all.
> > > 
> > > So my question: How to set those rc.conf-variables in order to start
> > > services in such an setup? Or is there a better solution?
> > 
> > Why have the backup MySQL server stopped at all?
> I am limited to an active/passive-Setup due to some Decisions in our
> company....

But if the IP address is not assigned to the backup system it
won't be active. I suppose it depends on your policy, whatever
that may be.

Cheers,
Dom