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Re: (ITS#7280) accesslog write to subentry of log database
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Sent: Sun May 27 2012 19:02:08 GMT-0400 (EDT)
From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
To: openldap@stormcloud9.net openldap-its@openldap.org
Subject: Re: (ITS#7280) accesslog write to subentry of log database
> openldap@stormcloud9.net wrote:
>> Full_Name: Patrick Hemmer
>> Version: 2.4.31
>> OS: Linux RHEL6
>> URL:
>> Submission from: (NULL) (98.211.220.204)
>>
>>
>> This is a feature request (mostly).
>>
>> Currently the accesslog overlay is only capable of writing to the
>> base DN of a
>> log database, and not a subentry of that database. Specifying the DN
>> to a
>> specific subentry for the "logdb" parameter ends up writing to the
>> base DN of
>> the database instead.
>>
>> The main reason for this is so that multiple accesslog overlays can
>> write to the
>> same backend database, and not have to create a separate database for
>> each
>> overlay. Currently if you try to give multiple accesslog overlays the
>> same
>> database, it causes deadlock issues (or it appears to be a deadlock)
>> and write
>> operations end up hanging. I'm not sure if this should be considered
>> a bug, or
>> just noted as "don't try and do that".
>
> Don't do that. Closing this ITS.
>
This is nonconstructive. I know not to do that, I'm the one who filed
the ITS...
You don't address the feature request at all, only that it currently
doesn't work which is why the request was filed in the first place. Is
logging multiple accesslog overlays to the same backend database unfeasible?
-Patrick
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<font color="#000000">Sent: Sun May 27 2012 19:02:08 GMT-0400 (EDT)<br>
From: Howard Chu <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hyc@symas.com"><hyc@symas.com></a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openldap@stormcloud9.net">openldap@stormcloud9.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openldap-its@openldap.org">openldap-its@openldap.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: (ITS#7280) accesslog write to subentry of log
database</font>
<blockquote cite="mid:4FC2B270.9090900@symas.com" type="cite"><font
color="#000000"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openldap@stormcloud9.net">openldap@stormcloud9.net</a> wrote:
<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000">Full_Name: Patrick
Hemmer
<br>
Version: 2.4.31
<br>
OS: Linux RHEL6
<br>
URL:
<br>
Submission from: (NULL) (98.211.220.204)
<br>
<br>
<br>
This is a feature request (mostly).
</font>
<font color="#000000"><br>
<br>
Currently the accesslog overlay is only capable of writing to
the base DN of a
</font>
<font color="#000000"><br>
log database, and not a subentry of that database. Specifying
the DN to a
<br>
specific subentry for the "logdb" parameter ends up writing to
the base DN of
<br>
the database instead.
<br>
<br>
The main reason for this is so that multiple accesslog
overlays can write to the
</font>
<font color="#000000"><br>
same backend database, and not have to create a separate
database for each
<br>
overlay. Currently if you try to give multiple accesslog
overlays the same
<br>
database, it causes deadlock issues (or it appears to be a
deadlock) and write
<br>
operations end up hanging. I'm not sure if this should be
considered a bug, or
<br>
just noted as "don't try and do that".
<br>
</font></blockquote>
<font color="#000000"><br>
Don't do that. Closing this ITS.
<br>
<br>
</font>
</blockquote>
<font color="#000000"><br>
This is nonconstructive. I know not to do that, I'm the one who
filed the ITS...<br>
You don't address the feature request at all, only that it
currently doesn't work which is why the request was filed in the
first place. Is logging multiple accesslog overlays to the same
backend database unfeasible?<br>
<br>
-Patrick<br>
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