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Date:      Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:03:34 -0500
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Web Server clustering
Message-ID:  <20010914180334.A8148@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010914142134.A65BA37B408@hub.freebsd.org>; from brian.jackson@third-rail.net on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:21:34AM -0700
References:  <20010914142134.A65BA37B408@hub.freebsd.org>

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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.
> 

<snip losing syslog data due to less than optimal rsync script>

>   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.


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