Python 2.6 on Centos 5.x

I came across this post about running Python 2.6 on CentOS.

http://chrislea.com/2009/09/09/easy-python-2-6-django-on-centos-5/

However, I run x86_64, and the RPMs are only in the i386 flavor. Thus I had to rebuild them, also, I use mod_wsgi instead of mod_python to run Django.

Thus, below is my YUM repository containing all of the x86_64 flavors of the RPMs, as well as the SRPMs. I had to make some changes to some of them, as well as updating Python to 2.6.5 (from 2.6.2).

Further, I had to compile many dependencies for our Django application. Hopefully this will be useful to someone!

http://dagobah.ftphosting.net/yum/

* Update 5/27/2010 *

The easiest

Posted on 17.05.10 | 13 comments | Filed Under: Uncategorized

Smooth Active-Active NFS failover with Heartbeat and Pacemaker.

I have need for an active-active NFS cluster. For review, and active-active cluster is two boxes that export two resources (one each). Each box acts as a backup for the other box’s resource. This way, both boxes actively serve clients (albeit for different NFS exports).

The first problem I ran into with this setup is the nfsserver OCF resource agent that comes with Heartbeat is not suitable. This is because it works by stopping/starting the nfs server via it’s init script. For my situation, NFS will always be running, I just want to add/remove exports on failover.

Adding and removing exports is

Posted on 23.03.10 | 15 comments | Filed Under: clustering, linux, networking

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