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  • Q: Xserve IP failover and file services?

    From laslow_g@laslow_g@hotmail.com (jp) to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 07, 2003 07:50:06
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    I am trying to set up IP Failover in OS X server 10.2. I want to have
    scripts that will start Apple and Windows file services on ip
    acquisition and stop same services on ip relinquish. I know that
    IPFailover itself will trigger the scripts. I have been trying to
    start and stop these services from the terminal using SystemStarter
    without any luck.

    I would think this would be possible because I don't want users
    connecting to the Xserve after a failure. Any ideas on what I might be overlooking?

    Jay
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  • From ZnU@znu@acedsl.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, July 07, 2003 12:28:56
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <d9c8ca35.0307070650.30b7d670@posting.google.com>,
    laslow_g@hotmail.com (jp) wrote:

    I am trying to set up IP Failover in OS X server 10.2. I want to have
    scripts that will start Apple and Windows file services on ip
    acquisition and stop same services on ip relinquish. I know that
    IPFailover itself will trigger the scripts. I have been trying to
    start and stop these services from the terminal using SystemStarter
    without any luck.

    I would think this would be possible because I don't want users
    connecting to the Xserve after a failure. Any ideas on what I might be overlooking?

    You can take AppleShare down by just killing the AppleFileServer process directly. I haven't tried this on OS X Server, but it doesn't seem to
    cause any problems on the client version of OS X; the preference pane
    changes to reflect the new status and so on. I don't know about SMB. You
    can probably get away with something similar. Give it a shot.

    You might also try asking on the MacOSX-admin mailing list: http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/macosx-admin/

    --
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  • From laslow_g@laslow_g@hotmail.com (jp) to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:46:48
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Thanks for the advice. I was able to get AppleShare stopped by killing the process. ps -ef | grep does not find it, but I had to use the gui Process Viewer
    to find it, then find the process id, then use the terminal to kill the process.

    In order to script this to run automatically during IP failover, I'm guessing some
    sort of Shell Script would need to be written, and the tough part is getting the
    shell script to know what PID to kill everytime, since this changes???

    What is disappointing is that now I need to learn UNIX to admin this server, when one of the selling points for the Xserve was the Quartz GUI interface, which
    is useless for specialized server functions. Geesh.

    As far as the mailing lists, nobody has replied to any of my posts on another mailing list. Either this is really complex stuff, or it's a secret. :)

    ~jay

    ZnU <znu@acedsl.com> wrote in message news:<znu-619529.12285607072003@news.fu-berlin.de>...
    In article <d9c8ca35.0307070650.30b7d670@posting.google.com>,
    laslow_g@hotmail.com (jp) wrote:

    I am trying to set up IP Failover in OS X server 10.2. I want to have scripts that will start Apple and Windows file services on ip
    acquisition and stop same services on ip relinquish. I know that
    IPFailover itself will trigger the scripts. I have been trying to
    start and stop these services from the terminal using SystemStarter
    without any luck.

    I would think this would be possible because I don't want users
    connecting to the Xserve after a failure. Any ideas on what I might be overlooking?

    You can take AppleShare down by just killing the AppleFileServer process directly. I haven't tried this on OS X Server, but it doesn't seem to
    cause any problems on the client version of OS X; the preference pane changes to reflect the new status and so on. I don't know about SMB. You
    can probably get away with something similar. Give it a shot.

    You might also try asking on the MacOSX-admin mailing list: http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/macosx-admin/
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