pfars-announce — PFARS Announcement List

[Paul B. <pb...@wh...>]

I have just finished commiting the latest revisions to the PFARS project 
CVS up on SourceForge. PFARS prounced 'farce' is the "PFARS For 
Automatic Replication System."

PFARS is currently used to handle server replication for 
Where2GetIt.com's LVS cluster. It has been in the production environment 
for over 2 months so we are pretty confident with the code stability. We 
decided to open source this program under the GPL to give back to the 
community that provided us with so many other great FREE tools that we 
could not run our business without (especially LVS). It is written in 
Perl and uses rsync over SSH to replicate server file systems. It also 
natively supports Debian Package replication.

Although the current version number is 0.8.1 it's not quite ready for 
release yet. It is seriously lacking in documentation and there is no 
installation procedure yet. Also in the future we would like add support 
for RPM based linux distros, many more replication stages, and support 
for restarting server processes when certain files are updated. If 
anyone would like to contribute to this project in any way do not be 
afraid to email me directly our join the development mailing list at 
pfa...@li....

Please visit the project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pfars/ 
and check it out. You will need to check it out from CVS as there are no 
files released yet. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

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Paul J. Baker                                Internet Systems Developer
pb...@wh...                                  Where2GetIt.com
phone 847-498-0111x234
fax   847-480-7422
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