Re: copy w/failover clarification

[Tod Oace]

On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:43, christian pearce wrote:

> Ah so that does work, sort of.  Yea I would like to have it continue
> past the second server if the first one suceeds.  Do you see this
> behavior documented anywhere?

The reference manual does say that Cfengine iterates over the server  
field ("Iterative expansion is currently restricted to:").T This  
isn't how I first interpreted it though. When I saw you could put a  
list of servers there I assumed it was for fail over. I still can't  
think of an application for pulling something from multiple servers.  
Anyone doing this?  -Tod

> On 12/23/05, Tod Oace <tod@quay.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:29, christian pearce wrote:
> >
> > > Jason,
> > >
> > > The following is an example of the failover in action.  Yes you can
> > > have multiple failovers.
> > >
> > > I would like to see the ability to define mutiple servers.  Alas I
> > > think will have to wait for Cfengine 3.
> >
> > Is that planned? That would be great!
> >
> > With Cfengine 2 you can copy from server=server1:server2. The problem
> > with it is if the copy from server1 is successful then it moves ahead
> > and does another copy from server2. And if server1 isn't responsive
> > then it seems to hang rather than timing out. Works great if server1
> > refuses connection though.  :)
> >
> > > --
> > > Christian Pearce
> >
> > --
> > Tod Oace <tod@quay.com>
>
>
> --
> Christian Pearce

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