I've installed Perlbal without any problems.  However there are no
instructions on how to get it up and running, or how/where to put the config
files.  After I did the make install, that was the end of it.

I mean, doing a "locate load-balancer.conf" command, I only see it showing
up in 2 places:

/root/.cpan/build/Perlbal-1.59/conf/load-balancer.conf
/stuff/mogilefs/Perlbal-1.59/conf/load-balancer.conf

Is there supposed to be another copy elsewhere?

And is there a script to get it running as a daemon on Linux?

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Ok I've figured that the program is expecting the default config file to be
found here:
/etc/perlbal/perlbal.conf

Now the question is, I'm trying to use the load-balancer.conf to get things
going, to test the system.  However, all it keeps telling me is:
"No services or management port configured.  Nothing to do.  Stopping."

I'm totally confused. I'm not even sure what a pool is, and what a balancer
is.  Could someone give me some help?

If there's some sort of test project/config that already works, I could
learn off that.  Otherwise this whole thing is like poking around in the
dark!

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>
> Ok I've figured that the program is expecting the default config file to
> be found here:
> /etc/perlbal/perlbal.conf
>
> Now the question is, I'm trying to use the load-balancer.conf to get
> things going, to test the system.  However, all it keeps telling me is:
> "No services or management port configured.  Nothing to do.  Stopping."
>
> I'm totally confused. I'm not even sure what a pool is, and what a
> balancer is.  Could someone give me some help?
>
> If there's some sort of test project/config that already works, I could
> learn off that.  Otherwise this whole thing is like poking around in the
> dark!
>

[mark @ web - ~/svn/perlbal] -> ./perlbal --help
Usage: perlbal [OPTS]
--help           This usage info
--version        Print perlbal release version
--config=[file]  Specify Perlbal config file
(default: /etc/perlbal/perlbal.conf)
--daemon         Daemonize

All of your questions answered.    Look in the conf/ directory for example
configuration files.  Pretty sure most use cases are covered.


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Mark Smith / xb95
smitty@gmail.com

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