[DRBD-user] DRBH/HeartBeat and CROND

Rui Meireles rmeireles at tec.dsr.telecom.pt
Wed Aug 22 13:55:39 CEST 2007

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Hi there.

I've sucessfully installed DRBD and HeartBeat in 2 servers using a
Primary/Secondary configuration.

I'm using Heartbeat to start/stop some services, as NFS, HTTPD, MYSQLD ...
I use several perl scripts that I created, and they are called at certain
times of the day by the crontab of 2 users: "root" and "user1".

I'm tempted to use HeartBeat to start/stop service CROND, so only the
PRIMARY runs the scripts. However, I'm afraid that stopping the CROND in the
SECONDARY will stop some important services, such as rotating log files. Is
this safe?

Is there any way for me to start/stop ONLY the "root crontab" and the "user1
crontab" with heartbeat?


Thanks a lot







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