How To Install sanlock on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sanlock in Fedora 36. sanlock is A shared storage lock manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sanlock on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sanlock.

Install sanlock on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install sanlock

Install sanlock on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove sanlock

sanlock Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/logrotate.d/sanlock
/etc/sanlock
/etc/sanlock/sanlock.conf
/etc/sysconfig/wdmd
/etc/wdmd.d
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/333210b9bdcbf1b7d46931688d0a6138d9da27
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/a57623257fdeabb9690edbc62269c304e5c7b8
/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).