Re: How to get the Directory's last modification time?

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Tony Earnshaw <tonye@billy.demon.nl> writes:

> fre, 26.11.2004 kl. 21.43 skrev Dieter Kluenter:
>
>> >> Sorry I gave a wrong information. The monitor backend is not storing
>> >> the modify timestamp, yet, but only the number of operations. The
>> >> 'lastmod' overlay, which is part of HEAD, is providing something
>> >> similar.
>> 
>> [...]
>> > Now tell me - who is right?
>> > I'll reinstall my openldap to enable the monitor backend only if this
>> > can solve my problem. Does it solve, or it doesn't?
>> 
>> It's Friday, so excuse Tony :-)
>> No, with the monitor backend you cannot read the monitored timestamp,
>> but only the number of modifying operations. But with the lastmod
>> overlay you can get the timestamp of the last modify operation.
>
> I don't have HEAD, I have 2.1.18.
>
> But depending on perms, 'ldapsearch -x -b
> cn=modify,cn=operations,cn=monitor -s base modifyTimestamp' gives the
> required result for me. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing, but the displayed value is not the timestamp of the last
modification but of DSA initialisation.

-Dieter

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