How To Install sanlock on Fedora 34

sanlock is A shared storage lock manager

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.