Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Luis F. V. Gomes wrote: > Hi all > > I think this may have happened to one of yours but I could not find > any hints to solve this problem automatically in the archives: > Due to a blackout, node 1 shuts down first and becomes outdated (DRBD > 8); node 2 acquires its resources and becomes primary for a few > minutes until it shuts down too. > After power comes back, node 2 does not boot due to a hardware > transient problem (the disk is intact). Node 1 boots but refuses to be > primary because it is outdated and my clustered services (http and > email servers) are a joke. > > Is there any configuration workaround for this situation? > > I just want the SMTP and POP services to wake up in node 1 (probably > using an alternative temporary spool directory) and later manually > resynchronize the data (maildir and queues) after fixing note 2. > > RedHat EL 5 > Heartbeat 2.0.8.3 > drbd.x86_64 8.0.3-1.el5.centos > dovecot.x86_64 1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 > exim.x86_64 4.63-3.el5 > > > Thanks > Luís Are you getting errors when trying to start exim/dovecot manually? If so, are the configuration files on the drbd device (because of HA requirements)? And if so, create the configuration files elsewhere and make sure exim/dovecot are looking for those configuration files in that location. Hope that's what you're looking for. Matt