In the message dated: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:10:44 EST, The pithy ruminations from Lon Hohberger on <Re: starting cman changes cluster.conf file? what in..> were: => On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 20:51 +0200, m.. mm.. wrote: => > Hi, => > => > Can somebody help me, when i am starting service cman in my cluster, it changes the /etc/clust => er/cluster.conf file? how is'it possible? => => You *must* change the cluster name! => => > I am trying to get an other cluster enviroment in same network where i have allready on cluste => r working. => > => > So this is then what happens.. i don't understand what is happening here! => > Starting cluster: => > Loading modules... done => > Mounting configfs... done => > Starting ccsd... done => > Starting cman... failed => > cman not started: Can't find local node name in cluster.conf /usr/sbin/cman_tool: aisexec daem => on didn't start => > [FAILED] => => Other things to look out for: => => * 'uname -n' must match something in cluster.conf. If it doesn't, Can you please clarify this? On my cluster: uname -n == /etc/hosts entry for eth0 (public address) cluster.conf "clusternode name" entries == /etc/hosts entry for eth1 (private network) and the cman daemon starts just fine. Is there something that I'm missing, or will this cause other issues? I'm running CentOS 5, cman-2.0.73-1.el5_1.1. => you need to edit /etc/init.d/cman: right before line 44 => ("load_modules()"), put: => => cman_join_opts+="-n <name_from_cluster.conf>" Wow...that value really seems like an ideal candidate for inclusion in the cluster.conf file, or in : /etc/sysconfig/cman => => This must be done on each cluster member! => => * chkconfig --del openais (if it's not already disabled) => => -- Lon ----- Mark Bergman http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=bergman%40merctech.com -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster