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Re: Installed Linux Failsafe today

To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Installed Linux Failsafe today
From: "Eric Z. Ayers" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:09:14 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: failsafe@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hello Lars,

Thank you too for the reply.

Lars Marowsky-Bree writes:
 > On 2000-07-27T17:48:23,
 >    "Eric Z. Ayers" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
 > 
 > > I am developing a hardware platform that will include:
 > >  
 > >   2 X86 boxes 
 > >   Internal IDE disk in each box
 > >   Shared SCSI (AHA2940 cards) with (software) RAID1 
 > >   Hopefully some sort of journaling FS when it becomes available
 > >   Right now I have a single 3c59x card in each machine, but I will
 > >     have dual ethernet in the final config (probabaly Intel nics)
 > 
 > You may wish to have separate NICs though - my personal estimate is that if
 > one port fails on a dual port card, the other one is likely to fail
 > too. 

They will both be built into the motherboard.  We just had a Sun box with
1 port on a 4 port card to go bad. There doesn't seem to be a lot of shared
hardware between the two ports as far as I can tell.

 > >   serial cable interconnect for heartbeat
 > 
 > Failsafe cannot currently use this, and I am unaware of the plan to make use
 > of serial interconnect.

OK - I got the idea that a null modem cable going between the two
boxes would be the best heartbeat medium - but that is probably from
reading about the 'heartbeat' project at linux-ha.org.  Is there any
reason why a null modem cable running ppp wouldn't be a good path for
heartbeat/control in a 2 node setup?  

...
 > > On the first box, I installed the failsafe binaries with 'fsinstall',
 > > and then 'fsinstall server' and 'fsinstall client'
 > 
 > I assume you mean "guiinstall" here?

yes.

I don't completely understand why I can't export the DISPLAY variable
and run the client, but I'll keep plugging along with what i have.

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I've hooked up the 2nd ethernet NICs and put a crossover cable between
the two.  I'm assuming that the "system controller port" is SGI
specific hardware that I don't have.  I will have some similar
hardware. We're looking at a hardware platform that has an "EMB"
port.  Maybe once I get the demo box in with the EMB port and the
failsafe source code is released, we could see if it would be possible
to support it under failsafe.

So I just un-checked "Set Reset Parameters for node dru1a" and kept
going.

I got the error:

Task failed.

setuid root access to "/usr/lib/sysadm/privbin" denied because it is
writable by group or others. use the chmod(1) command fix
access. (sic)

[cgi@dru1a sysadm]$ ls -lad privbin
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jan  2 00:54 privbin

OK, so I fixed it.
[root@dru1a sysadm]# chmod -w privbin
[root@dru1a sysadm]# ls -lad privbin
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jan  2 00:54 privbin

I'm fwding to you becuase I thought you might be able to fix this in
the rpm or the install scripts.


-Eric.

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