From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 14 20:29:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-srv.alltel.net (mta01.alltel.net [166.102.165.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF0837B413 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org ([166.102.201.28]) by mta01-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20010915032924.FHCO28620.mta01-srv.alltel.net@laptop.lambertfam.org> for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:29:24 -0500 Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 630D528B54; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:03:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:03:34 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Web Server clustering Message-ID: <20010914180334.A8148@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <20010914142134.A65BA37B408@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010914142134.A65BA37B408@hub.freebsd.org>; from brian.jackson@third-rail.net on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:21:34AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:21:34AM -0700, brian.jackson@third-rail.net wrote: > Hi - > > We have a cluster of Apache web servers which are "balanced" using > round-robin DNS. > > I could copy all of the logs to the primary server, and concatinate > them together before each sync. of the cluster, and then not copy that > directory to the other servers..... > > I'd appreciate any information / discussion on how people have > clustered their web servers, and dealt with log / content replication > issues. The first thing that jumps to my mind would be to set the secondary servers to log to the syslog daemon on your primary server. You may perhaps even want a central syslog server that does nothing else. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin -- Looking for work. lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html 2.5 years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in small & medium size ISPs. The last 5 months have included exposure to Solaris 7, True64 5, and Linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message