Information about the package, balance, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The balance package is designed for, TCP load-balancing proxy server with round robin and failover.
Package Name:
balance
Summary:
TCP load-balancing proxy server with round robin and failover
Description:
Balance is a simple but powerful generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and failover mechanisms. The program behaviour can be controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.42
Release:
7.el6
Size:
28 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the balance package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install balance
This command will install balance on the server.
yum remove balance
This command will un-install balance on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove balance, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove balance
This command will un-install balance 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 balance when using the -y flag.
yum update balance
This command will update balance to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove balance, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update balance
This command will update balance 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 balance when using the -y flag.
yum info balance
This command will show you core information about the balance package.
yum deplist balance
This command will show you the dependencies for balance. 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 balance
This command will check if there is an update waiting on balance. 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.