Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-29 Thread Ivan Fetch
Hello, On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:03 PM +1100 11/27/06, Guy Waugh quoted Kim Hawtin: > >>> How/where do you share the incoming mail list aliases that sendmail checks? >>> >>> Also when you create a new list, how to you update the other hosts aliases? >>> >> On each server

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 6:10 PM -0600 11/28/06, Gadi Evron wrote: > >> Is this in the FAQ anywhere? > > Searching the FAQ wizard for "NFS" doesn't turn up any hits, so I > would venture a guess to say that this issue i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 28, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > I believe that you are correct -- if the post is held on only one > server, and you happen to log into the other server to approve the > post, then the second machine would not see that post to approv

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:14 PM -0600 11/28/06, Brad Knowles quoted Gadi Evron: >> Is this in the FAQ anywhere? > > Searching the FAQ wizard for "NFS" doesn't turn up any hits, so I > would venture a guess to say that this issue is not addressed anywhere. > I'll summarize Barry's response and put in a link. Okay

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:10 PM -0600 11/28/06, Gadi Evron wrote: > Is this in the FAQ anywhere? Searching the FAQ wizard for "NFS" doesn't turn up any hits, so I would venture a guess to say that this issue is not addressed anywhere. I'll summarize Barry's response and put in a link. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Gadi Evron
Is this in the FAQ anywhere? On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 6:30 PM -0500 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > Of course, if machine 1 went down, all the messages in its hash > > slices would sit unprocessed, but it would be a fairly simple matter > > to reconfigure machine 2 to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:30 PM -0500 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Of course, if machine 1 went down, all the messages in its hash > slices would sit unprocessed, but it would be a fairly simple matter > to reconfigure machine 2 to handle machine 1's slices, or to bring up > a fallback machine to handle those s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:08 AM +1100 11/29/06, Guy Waugh wrote: > I'm still wondering whether I should be NFS-sharing the qfiles > directory. I haven't delved into the Mailman source code to try to > figure this out, but... In theory, it should work. I wouldn't do it myself, because of the contention and locki

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Guy Waugh
Barry Warsaw wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Nov 28, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Guy Waugh wrote: > >> I'm still wondering whether I should be NFS-sharing the qfiles >> directory. I haven't delved into the Mailman source code to try to >> figure this out, but... > > You should

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 28, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Guy Waugh wrote: > I'm still wondering whether I should be NFS-sharing the qfiles > directory. I haven't delved into the Mailman source code to try to > figure this out, but... You should be able to NFS share the qfiles d

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Guy Waugh
Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:03 PM +1100 11/27/06, Guy Waugh quoted Kim Hawtin: > >>> How/where do you share the incoming mail list aliases that sendmail >>> checks? >>> >>> Also when you create a new list, how to you update the other hosts >>> aliases? >>> >> On each server, in the sendmail ali

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:03 PM +1100 11/27/06, Guy Waugh quoted Kim Hawtin: >> How/where do you share the incoming mail list aliases that sendmail checks? >> >> Also when you create a new list, how to you update the other hosts aliases? >> > On each server, in the sendmail aliases file. So, when adding or > remov

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-26 Thread Kim Hawtin
Guy Waugh wrote: > Hi there, > > I run Mailman 2.1.9 on two load-balanced RHEL3 servers. The load > balancer is an LVS director (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org), a layer > 4 software load balancer. The load balancer balances requests to > sendmail on the two RHEL3 servers, and to apache running

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-26 Thread Guy Waugh
Hi Kim, list, Kim Hawtin wrote: > Guy Waugh wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I run Mailman 2.1.9 on two load-balanced RHEL3 servers. The load >> balancer is an LVS director (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org), a layer >> 4 software load balancer. The load balancer balances requests to >> sendmail on

[Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-26 Thread Guy Waugh
Hi there, I run Mailman 2.1.9 on two load-balanced RHEL3 servers. The load balancer is an LVS director (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org), a layer 4 software load balancer. The load balancer balances requests to sendmail on the two RHEL3 servers, and to apache running the Mailman web interface. B