How To Install sanlock on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sanlock on Fedora 34.
What is sanlock
The sanlock daemon manages leases for applications on hosts using shared storage.
We can use yum or dnf to install sanlock on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sanlock.
Install sanlock 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 sanlock using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sanlock
Install sanlock 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 sanlock using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sanlock
How To Uninstall sanlock on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sanlock package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sanlock
sanlock Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/logrotate.d/sanlock
/etc/sanlock
/etc/sanlock/sanlock.conf
/etc/sysconfig/wdmd
/etc/wdmd.d
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/cc5ccfaad04f9b2d41576f7530e1cc6aca6305
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/9d71fc5b985b778e80d46e6cee892fd905f430
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sanlock.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/wdmd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-wdmd
/usr/sbin/sanlock
/usr/sbin/wdmd
/usr/share/doc/sanlock
/usr/share/doc/sanlock/sanlock
/usr/share/doc/sanlock/sanlock.service
/usr/share/doc/sanlock/wdmd.service
/usr/share/man/man8/sanlock.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/wdmd.8.gz
/var/run/sanlock
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sanlock on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.