Re: (ITS#4511) DB_CONFIG not being updated by slapd

[quanah@stanford.edu]

Quoting erici@motown.cc.utexas.edu:

> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 quanah@stanford.edu wrote:
>
> >Quoting erici@motown.cc.utexas.edu:
> >
> >> Full_Name: Eric Irrgang
> >> Version: 2.3.21
> >> OS: Solaris 9 sparcv9
> >> URL:
> >> Submission from: (NULL) (128.83.217.14)
> >>
> >>
> >> Once it exists, DB_CONFIG never gets updated regardless of whether or
> not
> >> its content agrees with what slapd.conf says it should be.  However,
> if
> >> DB_CONFIG has an mtime more recent than the last slapd run, slapd
> reports
> >> "bdb_db_open: DB_CONFIG for suffix dc=entdir,dc=utexas,dc=edu has
> >> changed.
> >> Performing database recovery to activate new settings." but does
> nothing
> >> to write a new DB_CONFIG.  If slapd.d does not yet have the back-ldif
> >> files for cn=config, then the olcDatabase{1}bdb.ldif file is created
> with
> >> "olcDbConfig: {0}set_shm_key #" from the DB_CONFIG file and
> >> "olcDbShmKey: #" from the slapd.conf file.
> >
> >I think you are confusing some different things.
> >
> >If DB_CONFIG exists, the db* parameters in slapd.conf are ignored.  If
> >DB_CONFIG doesn't exist, it is created with those parameters.
> >
> >If the DB_CONFIG file in the database directory has had a timestamp
> change,
> >alock will detect that, and run db recovery on slapd startup.
> >
> >I'm not clear why you have shm settings in both DB_CONFIG and
> slapd.conf.
> >Generally you should only have that set in slapd.conf, IIRC.
>
> Well, the DB_CONFIG file was generated by the slapd from slapd.conf
> initially.  Then slapd.conf was modified.  Then slapd was started with
> the
> addition of '-F' and slapd.d was built with values from two sources.

My question is more, why are you defining the SHM key in the DB_CONFIG file
at all, whether through dbconfig statements in slapd.conf, or in the
generated DB_CONFIG file.

There is an shmkey directive you can use in the database section for a given
database, that is what I'd expect you would be using. ;)

--Quanah


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