Information about the package, gearmand, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gearmand package is designed for, A distributed job system.
Package Name:
gearmand
Summary:
A distributed job system
Description:
Gearman provides a generic framework to farm out work to other machines or dispatch function calls to machines that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport for database replication. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1.8
Release:
2.el6
Size:
156 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the gearmand package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gearmand
This command will install gearmand on the server.
yum remove gearmand
This command will un-install gearmand on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gearmand, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gearmand
This command will un-install gearmand 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 gearmand when using the -y flag.
yum update gearmand
This command will update gearmand to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gearmand, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gearmand
This command will update gearmand 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 gearmand when using the -y flag.
yum info gearmand
This command will show you core information about the gearmand package.
yum deplist gearmand
This command will show you the dependencies for gearmand. 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 gearmand
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gearmand. 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.