Goal:

This is a basic IP failover setup. There are other tools out there like Heartbeat and the Linux-HA suite. But I wanted something with less overhead. I also wanted something that was 'semi-automatic'.

I've been staring at the linux folder structure for some time now. I've gotten used to where everything goes, figured out that 'etc' is for configuration and 'var' is for variables and so on, but never actually seen an explanation of it. That was why I was interested to stumble upon the Filesystem Hierarchy Documenation: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html