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 the two RHEL3 servers, and to apache running the Mailman web >> interface. Because of this, there's no guarantee that a user will hit >> the Mailman web interface on the same server as the one that has >> received an email for a Mailman list. I do this load balancing for >> redundancy, not for load; this way, I can bring down one of the two >> servers at any time and the Mailman service is still maintained. >> >> By the way, I've been doing this since Mailman 2.1.5, and from that >> time, I've had the archives, data and lists directories on an NFS-shared >> disk, like this: >> > > ... > > >> Anyone suggest which directories I should be NFS sharing? >> > > 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 removing a list, I have to do the alias changes on each of the two servers.
One thing I am a bit concerned about is contention on the shared files between the two servers. If, for example, both servers wanted to update the same .pck file at the same time, I'm not sure what would happen... would one server lock the file and the other server wait for the lock to be released, does anyone know? Or would chaos ensue? > cheers, > > Kim > Cheers, Guy. -- Guy Waugh Unix System Administrator IT&TS, Southern Cross University Lismore, NSW, Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph.: +61 2 6620 3196 Fax: +61 2 6620 3033 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp