[Linux-ha-dev] Apache resource agent broken in Debian lenny

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2008-07-20T17:30:20, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I'm not sure if we should deal with this at all in heartbeat.
> Trying to support all the new setups and distributions, it may
> become a nightmare. For the maintenance too: dealing with the
> apache configuration is already rather complex and I'm really
> reluctant to make it more so. However, since apache now supports
> variables in the config and that may become a norm in future,
> perhaps we should support environment variables too. Sigh.

The first step is to allow a manual setting of everything which is
normally retrieved from auto-detection; validate-all could at least be
able to identify if some variable isn't in the right format (ie,
auto-detection failed), and then flag a request to specify it.

If people then use ocf-tester before adding something to their
configuration, they'll find out quickly ;-)

> Another option may be to kindly ask the apache people to provide
> some facility to query the server configuration.

Yes, that I guess would be good too. It's not our job to parse arbitrary
configuration files which happen to be in such inconvenient formats -
they really should switch to XML. *ducks & runs* ;-)


Regards,
    Lars

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