How To Install pen on Fedora 34

pen is Load balancer for “simple” tcp based protocols such as http or smtp

Introduction

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

What is pen

pen is a load balancer for “simple” tcp based protocols such as http or smtp. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside and automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.

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

Install pen 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 pen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pen

Install pen 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 pen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pen

How To Uninstall pen on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pen

pen Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/httpd/conf.d/pen.conf
/usr/bin/mergelogs
/usr/bin/pen
/usr/bin/penctl
/usr/bin/penlog
/usr/bin/penlogd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/cd6c180e546cb801f4ad0c92648f8be5fccb71
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/7766e9d4ba921fa98caea5656484c2cd4484d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/7ef87cd47e78dc01700df9d8c2662c01cd7b4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/48035a3d1486bb973b0af3a25cc6a35dea0005
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/1f1e04491bc46d6a0548d04d2cdb98304431fc
/usr/share/doc/pen
/usr/share/doc/pen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pen/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pen/HOWTO
/usr/share/doc/pen/README
/usr/share/doc/pen/TODO
/usr/share/doc/pen/penstats
/usr/share/man/man1/mergelogs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/penctl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/penlog.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/penlogd.1.gz
/var/www/pen
/var/www/pen/penctl.cgi

References

Summary

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