Re: Slapd fails to die (ITS#2502)

[Jason Townsend <jtownsend@apple.com>]

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 4:38 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> So it turns out that there were read locks left in the BDB environment 
> from a
> prior crash of slapd. Seems like we may need to do an auto-recover on 
> slapd
> startup after all. We could create a stamp file in the db directory to
> indicate a clean shutdown - check for the file at database init, if it
> exists, maybe do recovery. create stamp file, and delete it on database
> shutdown.
>
> If we put the slapd PID into the stamp file, then we can check its 
> validity -
> if the PID is valid and != current PID, everything is OK. If not, then 
> do
> recovery.
>
> This probably cannot be the slapd.pid file that's already configured in
> slapd.conf because that file is optional, and we want something that 
> will
> always be used.

Has this change been implemented yet? If not, I'll take a look at doing 
this.

-Jason