Re: [webmin-l] webmin cluster updates/hanging rpc.cgi

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 3/Oct/2006 10:02 Pat Erler wrote ..
> hi,
> 
> while celebrating my 365th day of uptime ;) i found a lot of  
> hanging/waiting rpc.cgi processes from webmin versions removed long, long
> time ago (ie:
> 
> # ps ax|grep rpc
> 18103 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/webmin-1.270/rpc.cgi
> 
> when 1.300 is installed. maybe you should kill them when upgrading.

That is odd - the upgrade does indeed kill all processes for the old
version. Do you see any from versions newew than 1.270?

> which reminds me, it is quite hard to cluster-update webmin, because you
> limit this functionality to servers which are interconnected with the 
> "fast rpc mode" which seems to be in the end nothing more, as that i need
> to keep up some ports above 10000. now, i'm in the situation, that i  
> cannot open more than some 20 ports in the hardware firewall my provider
> offers me and stupidely - i canot open ranges, so i cannot connect my 
> webmin servers "fast" in the webmin sense although the speed between them
> is 100mbit. couldn't you make this limitation optional?

Sadly no .. only in fast mode can there be a persistent connection from
the master to the slave, which is needed for the upgrade.

 - Jamie