On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 18:42 -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:18:47AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:29 -0600, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > > I've created my own tree on oss. I'll be pushing patches here
> > > before I commit them to the real git tree, to give the community
> > > time to review.
> >
> > Good stuff... will have a look soon. At first glance, I was looking
> > for a pmdacluster / pmclusterd man page ... do those exist anywhere
> > yet?
>
> Unfortunately not.
OK, that'd help in trying to understand this beast. Maybe a
diagram or two as well, after having sniffed around the code
briefly. :)
> I've left the initscript for pmclusterd (which is the client "push"
> daemon) out of /etc/init.d, because it is fairly rare that anyone will
> use it.
>
> It probably also needs some loving to be useful on a machine other than
> Altix ICE.
Hmm. If its a rare / non-generic solution we should probably
not install it by default? Hard to make the call without some
docs on what it is trying to achieve though.
> > > I'm particularly curious about the patch below that I got from
> > > Michael Newton. I presume it is a real bugfix, but I don't
> > > understand this area of the code yet...
That patch looks good to me, BTW.
cheers.
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Nathan
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