[Firehol-support] link-balancer starting at boot

[Spike]

wonderful, thanks, implemented it that way and works great (even the
logging is really clear and useful!).

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:36 AM Tsaousis, Costa <costa at tsaousis.gr> wrote:

> Hi Spike.
>
> Nice you like our work.
>
> No particular reason for starting it via cron. Just a preference.
> cron will work too.
>
> locking works with all firehol programs. So, only one instance of each
> will be running at any given time.
> This locking is done with flock, so there are no false positives (the lock
> is released even if the programs exits abnormally).
>
> I am running link-balancer for several years now in many sites and
> distros, and I never had a hang.
>
> All firehol programs log to syslog. The console output is just informative.
> link-balancer also syslogs all changes it does (the commands it runs).
>
> Costa
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Spike <spike at drba.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> been running firehol for a little while and it's amazing how well it's
> working and how much it made things simpler for us, really grateful to
> anybody who worked on this.
>
> I'm also using link-balancer and in the docs it explains how you can run it
> at boot:
>
>
> https://github.com/firehol/firehol/wiki/Link-Balancer#running-link-balancer-at-boot
>
> is there any particular reason I'm ignoring why this solution was chosen
> instead of running it from cron say every minute or whatever interval? To
> us that's more robust also in terms of managing the launch of the script
> (fiddling with rc.local and similar always ends up backfiring in my
> experience). Two issues however arise with that:
> - locking, in case the previous execution of link-balancer is hanging for
> whatever reason
> - logging, which would be good to send to syslog
>
> does anybody have any input on this?
>
> thanks,
>
> Spike
>
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