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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:16:26 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= <neigaard@e-box.dk>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Are my questions stupid, to hard or am I just unlucky
Message-ID:  <9143972148.20020406201626@e-box.dk>
In-Reply-To: <3CAF2F13.5040104@potentialtech.com>
References:  <14034112871.20020406173207@e-box.dk> <3CAF2F13.5040104@potentialtech.com>

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Saturday, April 06, 2002, 7:23:31 PM, Bill wrote:

BM> Søren Neigaard wrote:

>>Just wondering, not trying to offend anyone. I have send this mail 2
>>times, and other questions as well, but I get no answers. I'm curious,
>>is it because I formulate it badly, or because nobody knows?
>>

BM> Personally, I don't know what heartbeat & mon are, therefore I can't suggest
BM> an alternative. You could maybe say "tool that will tell me when a service
BM> goes down" or whatever it is they do, instead of giving the link to the 
BM> website.
BM> I found the website to involve a lot of reading before I would 
BM> understand the
BM> software well enough to recommend an alternative.

Point taken :)


BM> Beyond that, there is some mystical, magical timing involved. As someone
BM> else stated, different people monitor the list at different times. Sometimes
BM> you just post a message at a bad time. Never be afraid to post 3 or 4 times,
BM> just don't do it in rapid succession. Sometimes a message posted during the
BM> week will yeild no responses, but will get buried under replies if posted
BM> during the weekend.

BM> And sometimes the question just isn't easily answered. Never be upset if
BM> someone sends you a link to a website or a RTFM to a man page. Questions
BM> like "how do I set up my firewall" are best handled in this manner, while
BM> questions like "how do I block UDP traffic with my firewall" might get
BM> more direct answers.

BM> As an answer to your actual question, a slow, and time-consuming search
BM> of the "sysutils" and/or "net" part of the ports tree may be beneficial.
BM> Sometimes you just have to take some time to do the research (there's a
BM> LOT of ports out there!)

I belive you, but how would one search the tree for something like
this?

find . -name "availability"

Maybe you could give me some pointers here for the future, so that I
can spare you from some questions :)


BM> I also seem to remember an article on how to do this posted on 
BM> rootprompt.org,
BM> but I can't find the friggin thing now or I'd give you a direct link.

BM> -Bill

>>
>>
>>Here comes my question once more:
>>
>>Does FreeBSD have something like heartbeat and mon, or something else
>>I can use for High Availability like it is described on
>>http://www.linux-ha.org/ ?
>>
>>I have searched the ports for heartbeat and mon, but no results.
>>
>>--
>>Med venlig hilsen/Best regards,
>> Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk
>>--
>> "First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII -- and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a
>> television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."
>>
>>
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