Information about the package, hatools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The hatools package is designed for, Improved shell scripting in High Availability environment.
Package Name:
hatools
Summary:
Improved shell scripting in High Availability environment
Description:
The HA-Tools provide some programs to improve shell scripting in a High Availability environment. The halockrun program provides a simple and reliable way to implement a locking in shell scripts. A typical usage for halockrun is to prevent cronjobs to run simultanously. halockrun uses a lock on a file via fcntl(2) which ensures the release of the lock even if the process gets killed via SIGKILL. The hatimerun program provides a time-out mechanism which can be used from shell scripts.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.14
Release:
1.1.el6
Size:
28 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the hatools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install hatools
This command will install hatools on the server.
yum remove hatools
This command will un-install hatools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hatools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove hatools
This command will un-install hatools on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hatools when using the -y flag.
yum update hatools
This command will update hatools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hatools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update hatools
This command will update hatools to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hatools when using the -y flag.
yum info hatools
This command will show you core information about the hatools package.
yum deplist hatools
This command will show you the dependencies for hatools. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update hatools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on hatools. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.