I've got an installation of Apache Traffic Server running. All is great, except it keeps overwriting my symlinked configuration files!
For failover purposes, I've replaced records.config and remap.config with symlinks to a shared storage location (so the active and standby servers can access the same config files). The probably is ATS randomly(?) moves my symlinks to a backup file (e.g. records.config_1) and replaces the original with a new (non-symlinked) copy of the configuration file.
In other words, my /etc/trafficserver/ directory will look like this one day:
[..]
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 39 Nov 22 16:24 records.config -> /mnt/shared_storage/web/ats//records.config
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Nov 22 16:20 regex.map -> /mnt/shared_storage/web/ats//regex.map
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 37 Nov 22 16:24 remap.config -> /mnt/shared_storage/web/ats//remap.config
[...]
...and a few weeks later, will become this:
[..]
-rw-r--r--. 1 ats ats 12K Dec 26 11:55 records.config
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 39 Nov 22 16:24 records.config_1 -> /mnt/shared_storage/web/ats//records.config
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Nov 22 16:20 regex.map -> /mnt/shared_storage/web/ats//regex.map
-rw-r--r--. 1 ats ats 233 Dec 26 11:37 remap.config
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 37 Nov 22 16:24 remap.config_1 -> /mnt/shared_storage/web/ats//remap.config
[...]
How can I stop ATS from performing these config file backups? I need to reliably reference the shared storage for these configuration files so I can ensure my standby servers are referencing an updated configuration.
Note: I'm running Apache Traffic Server 5.3 on RHEL6. Both are up to date (from RHN / EPEL).
