libexec/local_is_backup

   1 #!/usr/bin/python
   2
   3 import socket, sys
   4 from urllib import urlopen
   5 is_backup = False
   6 try:
   7     master = urlopen('http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/sql/etc/master').read().strip()
   8     if master != socket.gethostname():
   9         is_backup = True
  10 except Exception, e:
  11     pass
  12
  13 if is_backup:
  14     sys.exit(0)
  15 else:
  16     sys.exit(1)