Re: Berkeley DB db_home not set, __db.00? files created in cwd (ITS#725)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

I added DB_USE_ENVIRON support to devel code.  Supporting
a db_home option would require additional effort to which
I'm not prepared to do at the moment.

At 08:15 AM 9/11/00 +0000, matt@nipltd.com wrote:
>Full_Name: Matt Hoskins
>Version: 2.0.1
>OS: Solaris
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>Submission from: (NULL) (194.193.44.21)
>
>
>I apologise if this is just me being thick, but I have looked through the docs
>a few times ;). I'm using berkeley db 3.1 as the back end.
>
>The libldbm backend doesn't set db_home when it opens the DBENV, neither is the
>option set to allow the DB_HOME environment to be used. This means that unless
>you
>use the -r option for starting slapd (which I don't want to do), or change the
>current working directory to something useful before starting slapd, you get
>the shared working files that berkeley db 3.1 uses stuffed in the current
>directory.
>
>It would seem sensible to me (tho' I am new to openldap) to have an option to
>set
>db_home.