Re: Question about openLDAP, bdb backend, and commits

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@obsidian.co.za>]

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Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| We had a power outage and UPS failure last week, and the LDAP server
was shut
| down uncleanly.  When it came back up, surprisingly the database looked
| intact except for the very last entry I had added (adding a Samba machine
| account).  The only thing is, I had added that entry at least an hour
before
| the power outage and that system is not a busy system at all.  I was
curious
| about why the transaction obviously did not get written to all the
internal
| tables, and if there is a way that I can ensure that transactions get
written
| out quicker than that.  Is it a limitation with BDB backend?  I am
running:
| openldap2-2.2.6-37.22
| db-4.2.52-85
|

I think you want the checkpoint option,look in the man page for slapd-bdb.

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Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
Obsidian Systems                  http://www.obsidian.co.za
B.Eng                                RHCE (803004789010797)
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