[Linux-ha-dev] Heartbeat 0.4.5b prerelease available for download

[Alan Robertson]

Thomas Hepper wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:32:22PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
> > I've uploaded heartbeat 0.4.5b to the download directory of the web site, but
> > there are no pointers to it on the web site.  The last part of the URLs are what
> > Give it a shot, and see what you think.
> 
> OK, next comment/bug. Sometimes the fifo in /var/run/heartbeat-fifo is an
> normal file, no pipe. There is a function in the heartbeat script called
> init_fifo, but i can't find a place where this function is called. I think
> it should be called before the start of the heartbeat process.

I also made the C code make the FIFO if it doesn't exist, in anticipation of
getting rid of some of these startup scripts.


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@bell-labs.com