From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 27 02:57:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DEE16A484 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:57:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@digitalstratum.com) Received: from mail.mundomateo.com (static-24-56-193-117.chrlmi.cablespeed.com [24.56.193.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153D243D4C for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:56:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@digitalstratum.com) Received: from [10.0.81.12] (ws12.mundomateo.com [10.0.81.12]) by mail.mundomateo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBE66555; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:56:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4389206C.5050802@digitalstratum.com> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:56:44 -0500 From: Matthew Hagerty Organization: Digital Stratum User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Marks References: <43887BC0.7000501@digitalstratum.com> <200511261534.29545.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200511261534.29545.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running a shell script on becoming the CARP master? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: matthew@digitalstratum.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:57:01 -0000 Dominic Marks wrote: >On Saturday 26 November 2005 15:14, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > > >>Greetings, >> >>Are there any hooks into CARP to run a shell script when a machine >>becomes the master? Also, is there a way to force a machine to become >>the master without powering off the current master (for example to do >>maintenance on the current master)? >> >> > >I believe there was supposed to be a utility for this sort of thing >but I haven't seen or heard anything about it. In the mean time a >program which read the data could probably be built from the ifconfig >code quite simply. It would be really nice if there were kevent >notifications for CARP events. > > > >>Thanks, >>Matthew >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > > I was looking at the ifconfig output and it certainly could be parsed for the CARP status I suppose, but it just seemed a little crude and I wanted to make sure I was not missing something more obvious. Do you know if the CARP interface is up, available, and stable by the time /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts are run? Thanks, Matthew