Re: OpenLDAP power failure crash

[Samuel Tran <stran@amnh.org>]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 23:18 +0200, Enric Font wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I've my OpenLDAP running on my debian sarge server
> > and
> > > I've a little problem.
> > > 
> > > I can modify the database, but when openldap
> > crashes
> > > (for example due to a power failure), when it
> > > restarts, the database is the same that some
> > months
> > > ago!
> > > 
> > > Anyone know what happens? How can I fix it?
> > > 
> > 
> > Please could you provide more information on the
> > OpenLDAP version and
> > backend type? Also send relevant configuration
> > parameters from your
> > slapd.conf file.
> 
> 
> Sorry
> 
> the version is: Version: 2.1.30-3
> what's backend type?
> 
> Here is my sldap.conf file:
>  ################3
> allow bind_v2
> 
> include         /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema
> include         /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema
> include         /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema
> include         /etc/ldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
> include         /etc/ldap/schema/pureftpd.schema
> include         /etc/ldap/schema/postfix.schema  
> 
> schemacheck     on
> 
> pidfile         /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid
> 
> argsfile        /var/run/slapd.args
> 
> loglevel        0
> 
> modulepath      /usr/lib/ldap
> moduleload      back_bdb
> 
> backend         bdb
> 
> database        bdb
> 
> 
> suffix          "dc=xarxa3,dc=org"
> 
> 
> rootdn "cn=admin,dc=xarxa3,dc=org"
> rootpw XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> 
> directory       "/var/lib/ldap"
> 
> index           objectClass eq
> 
> lastmod         on
> 
> access to attribute=userPassword
>         by dn="cn=admin,dc=xarxa3,dc=org" write
>         by anonymous auth
>         by self write
>         by * none
> 
> access to dn.base="" by * read
> 
> access to *
>         by dn="cn=admin,dc=xarxa3,dc=org" write
>         by * read
> 
> ##############3
> 

What version of Berkeley DB are you using?

Your version of OpenLDAP is pretty old; you should definitely upgrade to
at least 2.2.26.

If you intentionaly stop OpenLDAP after some modifications, do you loose
these changed as well?

Sam