Information about the package, Perlbal, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The Perlbal package is designed for, Reverse-proxy load balancer and webserver.
Package Name:
Perlbal
Summary:
Reverse-proxy load balancer and webserver
Description:
Perlbal is a single-threaded event-based server supporting HTTP load balancing, web serving, and a mix of the two. Perlbal can act as either a web server or a reverse proxy. One of the defining things about Perlbal is that almost everything can be configured or reconfigured on the fly without needing to restart the software. A basic configuration file containing a management port enables you to easily perform operations on a running instance of Perlbal. Perlbal can also be extended by means of per-service (and global) plugins that can override many parts of request handling and behavior.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.80
Release:
12.el6
Size:
294 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the Perlbal package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install Perlbal
This command will install Perlbal on the server.
yum remove Perlbal
This command will un-install Perlbal on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove Perlbal, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove Perlbal
This command will un-install Perlbal 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 Perlbal when using the -y flag.
yum update Perlbal
This command will update Perlbal to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove Perlbal, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update Perlbal
This command will update Perlbal 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 Perlbal when using the -y flag.
yum info Perlbal
This command will show you core information about the Perlbal package.
yum deplist Perlbal
This command will show you the dependencies for Perlbal. 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 Perlbal
This command will check if there is an update waiting on Perlbal. 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.