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Re: OpenLDAP power failure crash

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Howard Chu wrote:
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
>>> Your version of OpenLDAP is pretty old; you should definitely upgrade to
>>> at least 2.2.26.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> Upgrading to 2.2.26 won't fix this problem (although it is still a good
>> idea for other reasons).
>>
>> Eric, you should ensure that database recovery is run at startup,
>> otherwise you may lose transactions which are in the transaction log
>> files.
>>
>>   
> 
> Just a note - OpenLDAP 2.3 does the database recovery automatically as
> needed.

I thought I saw something like that .. which is why I qualified my
initial "Upgrading won't ...".

Thanks for confirming it.

So, I can remove the (optional, but on by default) db_recover call from
the start() section of our init script for 2.3.

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
Obsidian Systems                  http://www.obsidian.co.za
B.Eng          RHCE (803004789010797),LPIC-1 (LPI000074592)
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