[Linux-HA] tengine dies unexpectedly

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 9/8/06, The Design Assembly GmbH Matthias Dahl
<mdmlha at designassembly.de> wrote:
> Hello again...
>
> In reponse to my earlier message, I solved the tengine dying problem by simply
> changing the ownership of /var/lib/heartbeat/pengine from root to cluster.
> But I guess tengine shouldn't die when the ownership is wrong, should it? :-)

I'd have expected the PE to die not the TE.... how did it die?

>
> Nevertheless I'd be really thankful if anyone could have a quick look over my
> dir permissions I posted earlier, just to be sure that there aren't more of
> those problems just waiting to hit me. :-)
>
> On a total different subject: how should Heartbeat behave when it's the only
> node up and running in a three node cluster? In my case, I cannot get it to
> acquire quorum. Is there a possibility how I can specify what it should do in
> a situation like that or even better: what factors it should consider before
> acquiring quorum?

quorum in heartbeat is still a simple mojority - you cant force it and
need to have more than half the number of nodes up to get it.