> John, > > Try looking at this from a different perspective. Think about the > application that you are trying to add redundancy to (I am presuming > you meant HA and not load balancing/clustering by mistake). Seperate > out your shared requirements from your instance specific details. I > guess that there is a specific application(s) that you want to make > highly available - a good start would be to get the source and install > these in user configurable directories. Once you have all the > required folders nailed down you can look at using > http://www.linux-ha.org/ to find out about mirroring your shared data. oh all the servers...mail...httpd, named, but I'd also like to take care of all the admin tweaking automatically as well. mail will be fun huh? procmail! ummmm I am gonna let this rest til I talk to Bob Chiodini probably Monday or Tuesday, he knows exactly what I have and what I'm doing and since he authored Heartbeat, you betcha he knows the route I best take..We lost so much time w/my switch server scripts because of this crappy modem that we never really had chance to discuss this part. Oh, in the meantime I think I just try to get smart on some of the neat stuff procmail can do...take your mail and put it on the other machine etc..it's pretty slick. thx Andy and Jiann-Ming john rose -- If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid!
