[Linux-HA] Re: Change the cib.xml under a live cluster

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 11/7/06, Stephen Souness <sounie at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> > Please never, never ever, not in a million years, change the cib.xml
> > file when the cluster is active.
> >
> > We specifically try to detect this, thats how bad an idea it is.
> >
> > If you want to edit the XML by hand, please get a copy of it by running:
> >    cibadmin -Q > ~/saved.cib.xml
> >
> > then you may safely edit ~/saved.cib.xml and (when you're ready)
> > upload it again with:
> >    cat ~/saved.cib.xml | cibadmin -R (plus any other options you want to
> > add)
> >
>
>
> cat ~/saved.cib.xml | cibadmin -R -p
>
> may get you a bit further - otherwise you could get presented with:
>
> Call cib_replace failed (-25): The update was empty
> <null>
>

ah, yes of course.  thanks :-)