About:
Heartbeat is a full-function high-availability system for Linux and other POSIX-like OSes. It monitors services and restarts them on errors. When managing a cluster (more than 1 machine), it will also monitor the members of the cluster and begin recovery of lost services in less than a second. It runs over serial ports and UDP broadcast/multicast, as well as OpenAIS multicast. It is easily adapted to different interconnect media and protocols. When used in a cluster, it can operate using shared disks, data replication, or no data sharing. Versions starting with 2.0 are comparable to any commercial HA package, providing resource monitoring, larger clusters, and detailed dependency information.

Release focus: Major security fixes

Changes:
This release fixes a major exploit and is mandantory for people running version 0.4.9[a-d]. Please see the security bulletin at http://linux-ha.org/security/sec01.txt for more details. As an additional precuation, this version also makes all network-facing processes run as nobody.

Author:
Alan Robertson [contact developer]

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8.34/10.00 (6 votes)

Homepage:
http://linux-ha.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://linux-ha.org/download/
Changelog:
http://linux-ha.org/download/ChangeLog
RPM package:
http://linux-ha.org/download/
Debian package:
http://www.ultramonkey.org/download/heartbeat/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cvs.linux-ha.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/linux-ha/
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.tummy.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: Other, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Programming Language]		C, Unix Shell
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks, System, System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks, System :: Networking :: Monitoring

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	2.0.5	28-Apr-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	1.99.1	29-Dec-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.99.1	Major bugfixes	29-Dec-2004 10:38
1.3.0	Major feature enhancements	13-May-2004 09:47
1.1.5	Major bugfixes	14-Feb-2004 09:08
1.1.3	Major bugfixes	30-Oct-2003 04:28
0.4.9e	Major security fixes	14-Oct-2002 14:06
0.4.9a	Major feature enhancements	18-Jan-2002 02:22
0.4.9.0k	Minor bugfixes	27-Oct-2001 18:17
0.4.8k	Major feature enhancements	14-Feb-2001 01:55

 Articles referencing this project

• Debian: New heartbeat packages fix denial of service
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Thu, Aug 24th 2006 13:29
  
• Debian: New heartbeat packages fix local denial of service
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Thu, Aug 24th 2006 12:11
  
• SuSE: Remote root vulnerability in heartbeat
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Oct 14th 2002 12:48
  
• Debian: New heartbeat packages fix buffer overflows
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Oct 14th 2002 09:56
  
• Linux Clustering Software
  by Joe Greenseid , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Jun 1st 2002 00:00