From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 19 03:28:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2F016A41F for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 03:28:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alanr@unix.sh) Received: from robertsons.dyndns.org (robertsons.dyndns.org [71.39.23.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C9443D48 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 03:28:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alanr@unix.sh) Received: from linux.site (servidor [10.10.10.5]) by robertsons.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD11D557A3; Thu, 18 May 2006 21:28:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by linux.site (Postfix) with ESMTP id 701DD1F1D9; Thu, 18 May 2006 21:28:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <446D3B73.3040202@unix.sh> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 21:28:51 -0600 From: Alan Robertson Organization: IBM Linux Technology Center User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060411) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: General Linux-HA mailing list References: <20060513015129.C95601@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> In-Reply-To: <20060513015129.C95601@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, ocf@lists.community.tummy.com Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Integrating OCF framework w/ (Net|Free)BSD rc.d X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 03:28:54 -0000 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > What is OCF? The extensions required to make any RC script register a > system service as a Cluster Resource in the Linux-HA infrastructure. > > For those of you unfamiliar with OCF, please refer to the draft standard > at: > http://www.opencf.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/specs/ra/resource-agent-api.txt?rev=HEAD > > http://linux-ha.org/HeartbeatResourceAgent > http://linux-ha.org/LSBResourceAgent > http://linux-ha.org/OCFResourceAgent > http://linux-ha.org/ResourceAgentSpecs > > Fortunately, our rc.d system infrastructure is sufficiently extensible > in nature to easily mitigate the need for duplicate OCF script coding > efforts by Port maintainers. Existing in-tree and Ports-provided rc.d/ > compliant scripts can be extended with very little effort. OK. You don't have to write OCF scripts if you don't want to. BUT, for R2, you really do want something equivalent to "status" operations. Is that available in *BSD rc.d scripts? -- Alan Robertson "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce