Re: Re: add new entry problem

[Tero Pelander <tpeland@tkukoulu.fi>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, openldap wrote:
>    This means all data will be  saved in   var/openldap-ldbm directory. I tried to delete all file under that directory.
>   When i added and searched entries again,it still worked well. But i found nothing under var/openldap-ldbm directory. why?

Under unix like systems you can remove the filename but the file itself is
only removed when the last program that has it open closes it's
filehandles.

If you want to remove the database you must _first_ stop the slapd, then
remove the files and after that start slapd again.