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, in the

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 aliases file. So, when

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

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 be able to

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 locking

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

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 handle

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

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, FAQ

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 approve

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 is not

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 removing a

[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.

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 the two

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 the