How To Install ldirectord on Fedora 34

ldirectord is A Monitoring Daemon for Maintaining High Availability Resources

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ldirectord on Fedora 34.

What is ldirectord

The Linux Director Daemon (ldirectord) was written by Jacob Rief. jacob.rief@tiscover.com ldirectord is a stand alone daemon for monitoring the services on real servers. Currently, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP services are supported. ldirectord is simple to install and works with Pacemaker (http See ’ldirectord -h’ and linux-ha/doc/ldirectord for more information.

We can use yum or dnf to install ldirectord on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ldirectord.

Install ldirectord on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ldirectord using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ldirectord

Install ldirectord on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ldirectord using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ldirectord

How To Uninstall ldirectord on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ldirectord package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ldirectord

ldirectord Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/ha.d
/etc/ha.d/resource.d
/etc/ha.d/resource.d/ldirectord
/etc/logrotate.d/ldirectord
/usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/ldirectord
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ldirectord.service
/usr/sbin/ldirectord
/usr/share/doc/ldirectord
/usr/share/doc/ldirectord/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ldirectord/ldirectord.cf
/usr/share/man/man8/ldirectord.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ldirectord on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.