2001-03-05 -+- Neal Becker -+- nbecker@fred.net -+- The FAM site seems very quiet. Is it alive? Where is 2.4.xxx support? 2001-03-06 -+- szaka -+- szaka @ sienet.hu -+- 2.4.x supports file/directory notification out of the box,
for more see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dnotify.txt 2001-03-09 -+- guido socher -+- guido@linuxfocus.org -+- Thanks for this hint. Nobody from the LinuxFocus
team was really aware of this new 2.4 Kernel feature:
http://www.yggdrasil.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux/Documentation/dnotify.txt?rev=1.1

Many other readers will find this information as well useful. 2001-03-12 -+- Atif Ghaffar -+- aghaffar@developer.ch -+- Hi Szaka,
thanks for the info about dnotify.
I have asked about the possibility of using it with fam at the FAM mailing list.

2001-03-13 -+- Johan Isacsson -+- johan@mgon.com -+- The dnotify approach requires a filehandle for each file being watched (at least that's how i understood it). For large directories that could be a problem.
I think the imon approach is more elegant :) There is a version of imon for 2.4 kernels, when i last checked it was for test9 i think.
Unfortunately imon and possibly fam has some limitations. Imon uses kmalloc to allocate memory for the hashtable where it keeps all inode numbers to monitor. For a large directory the hash table needed to be bigger than 128 k. Kmalloc can't allocate larger chunks than that.
I tried to use vmalloc instead but there seem to be something more that needs to be done (it could be in fam or imon).
I think what this article describes would be a very good thing to have working. If the fam/imon folks see a large interest in getting imon to work with large directories it will proibably be fixed soon. They have a mailinglist... :P
2001-03-15 -+- Atif Ghaffar -+- aghaffar@developer.ch -+- Another File synchronizer I came through today is
Unison
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

I havent tested it yet, just went through the online docs.


2001-06-04 -+- tom -+- -+- hi,
very interesting article -thanks.
another question:
how you would sync two (failover) webservers with (postgres-)databases installed?

thanks in advance,
tom 2001-09-05 -+- Kelly McGranahan -+- sv1@myrealbox.com -+- Database failover should always be done with database specific utilities. If you look on the Postgresql to list replication and failover are listed on the top as urgent. Hopefully, we will see some inherant abilities soon. 2001-09-18 -+- Vladimir Natalenko -+- vladimir@milo1.com -+- Hi All!

I tried to set up Installing FAM and IMON. It was ok.
But when I tried to set up Installing SGI::FAM Perl module I had received the message:

[root@bkupdirector SGI-FAM-1.002]# perl Makefile.PL
Ignore "Not a known parameter name" warnings.'PRCS_PROJECT' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lC

I could not find module "ExtUtils::MM_PRCS". It seems to me this module is required.
Could you please to help me. What should I do? Where can I find this module.
Thank you in advance for your prompt answer.

Vladimir Natalenko 2001-11-19 -+- Gonzalo -+- gonzalo@unixpac.com.au -+- Vladimir,

Perhaps this will help?:

http://prcs.sourceforge.net/

2001-12-20 -+- Bill -+- bill@_REMOVEME_sanac.net -+- Hi,

I've played a bit with many filesystems trying to solve the synchronisation problem...

do you think this solution could be adapted to a two-hosts cluster acting both as webservers AND ftpservers?

thanks!

Bill 2002-01-03 -+- Kingsley Tart -+- kingsley@skymarket.co.uk -+- We have some web sites with active content - some sites have CGI programs that manage bulletin boards, for example. As far as I understand it, the scenario with one FTP server and a cluster of web servers replicating from it would fall down in this situation. Is this sort of thing beyond the current scope of FAM and IMON?

Cheers,
Kingsley. 2002-01-04 -+- Kingsley Tart -+- kingsley@skymarket.co.uk -+- We have some web sites with active content - some sites have CGI programs that manage bulletin boards, for example. As far as I understand it, the scenario with one FTP server and a cluster of web servers replicating from it would fall down in this situation. Is this sort of thing beyond the current scope of FAM and IMON?

Cheers,
Kingsley. 2002-02-22 -+- Brian McQueen -+- bqueen@nas.nasa.gov -+- Here is a nice page on our technique for sync'ing our web servers using
fam and imon. The client/server code is available, but its beta:

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/WWW/subpages/topology.html
2002-07-23 -+- jib -+- -+- I've got a problem to install SGI::FAM, this way don't works on my configuration (mandrake 8.2), it seems to be library problem and I'm not able to see where it is. Can somebody help me? I download last perl version. -+- 193.252.188.243 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) 2002-08-01 -+- jean francois panico -+- 922354@sitoverde.com -+- In MDK8.2 you have to install fam-...rpm, libfam-...rpm, and libfam-devel...rpm BEFORE installing SGI::FAM.
That's all you need to get it running.

Bye
JF
-+- 194.153.206.80 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) 2002-12-01 -+- philippe -+- pizoret@free.fr -+- it is possible to avoid the size limitation of imon ?
by exemple with several instance of script fam_mirror , launch on several part of the big arborescence ..

perhaps it's a folish thinks ...

Thanks . -+- 213.245.9.100 = Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.2.5-0.woody.1 2003-01-22 -+- Bernd Hinrichsen -+- hinrichsen@gamax.de -+- Hallo all!
I have a problem running SGI::FAM scripts on my Redhat 7.2 box. I have no problems running the fam test script but all perl scripts result in a 'Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro new at...'. This is after a successfull installation of SGI::FAM according to CPAN.

Any ideas?

Thnx
Bernd -+- 213.70.79.227 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 2003-02-12 -+- MichaelPavlovsky -+- spavlov@t2.technion.ac.il -+- Hi,
I think that "fam & imon" are nice tools but
there are tons of similar solutions for resource monitoring.
By resources I mean file system's trees or even shared memory.
The real problem in my opinion is a notification!.
Fam worths nothing without fast, " reliable " messaging system.
I think that current solution is not fast and clean enough.
If you know about anything worth looking please send me a link.

Thanks,
Michael Pavlovsky:
"spavlo@t2.technion.ac.il" -+- 128.139.197.31 = Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux) 2003-02-28 -+- Penguin -+- penguin@linuxdumps.com -+- Hey.... I have 2 file servers each with 400GB of data. Is it feesable to use your method to replicate in realtime between the 2?

thx
-+- 216.208.130.66 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 2003-03-21 -+- ponomario -+- ponomario@yahoo.es -+- Hi....

I have a problem when try install the module SGI::FAM display follow errors:

BEGIN failed--- compilation aborted at t/fam.t line 1
t/fam... dobious
test returned status 2 (wstat 512 0x200)
FAILED test script could be run alas--no output ever seen
make *** [test_dynamic error 2]
/usr/bin/make test not Ok

running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

Any ideas?


thanks for the atention lent...


PD: sorry for my english -+- 80.58.4.170 = Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 2003-03-26 -+- kapachov -+- ponomario@yahoo.es -+- hi
I can install the module, I do manualy

#perl Maekefile.pl
#make
#make test (optional)
#make install

But now I try run the progrma monitor or fam_mirror.

for example:

#./monitor /var/www/

or

#./fam_mirror /var/www


this show me that error:


Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro new at ./monitor (or ./fam_mirror) in the line ?


thanks for the atention lent....
-+- 80.58.4.170 = Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 2003-05-15 -+- Alguien -+- -+- El error "Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM" esta en el codigo
la funcion AUTOLOAD en FAM.pm:

sub AUTOLOAD {
my $constname;
($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://;
my $val = constant($constname);
if ($! != 0) {
if ($! =~ /Invalid/) {
$AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD = $AUTOLOAD;
goto &AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD;
} else {
croak "Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro $constname";
}
}
eval "sub $AUTOLOAD { $val }";
goto &$AUTOLOAD;
}

Incluye una comprobacion de error en "ingles":

" if ($! =~ /Invalid/) { "

en las versiones en castellano deberia ser:

" if ($! =~ /inválido/) { "

Se me ha ocurrido usar "use English" pero no funciona. Una solucion de urgencia es modificar el esa linea de codigo de FAM.pm:

" if ($! =~ /inv/i) { "

Si a alguien se le ocurre otra cosa....

-+- 212.59.220.116 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) 2003-06-09 -+- Stanislav Brabec -+- sbrabec@suse.cz -+- "LANG=C LC_ALL=C fam_mirror" works around "Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro new at ./fam_mirror line 50" for all locales. -+- 213.210.157.162 = Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.8 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030317 2003-07-17 -+- Siti Muna Payordueramae -+- -+- i think FAM is very intresting.. but i'm haven't basic in peal.. just have a little bit basic in unix... can anybody tell me how to install FAM, i means from the first step untill how to run the programming... thank u -+- 161.142.148.101 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98) #2003-07-17 -+- Siti Muna Payordueramae -+- -+- i think FAM is very intresting.. but i'm haven't basic in peal.. just have a little bit basic in unix... can anybody tell me how to install FAM, i means from the first step untill how to run the programming... thank u -+- 161.142.148.101 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98) 2003-07-17 -+- Maurizio -+- matalla@inwind.it -+- Hi,
i'm trying to get through with fam_monitor but my (maybe stupid) problem is: how do i transfer my RSA (DSA) data in order to go through ssh without authorization ..better with key-pair authorization ?

Thanks

Maurizio -+- 212.102.34.93 = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586) Gecko/20030704 Galeon/1.3.5 Debian/1.3.5.20030714-1