Re: Index problems: search results returning no responses

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:29 PM +0200 Graham Leggett 
<minfrin@sharp.fm> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am running openldap v2.2.13 (as packaged with RHEL4), and have run into
> a problem with indexes.
>
> I added the following line to the slap.conf to enable indexing on the
> mailAlternateAddress attribute as provided by qmail.schema:
>
> index mailAlternateAddress             eq,pres,sub
>
> Openldap on startup made no complaints about the above line or logged any
> error messages at all - however all search queries that involved the
> mailAlternateAddress attribute started quietly returning zero results.
>
> As no obvious error message was logged, and as the LDAP server worked
> fine apart from queries for mailAlternateAddress, this problem was only
> picked up after a day of bounced email on people' alias email addresses.
>
> Is this a known problem, and is there a solution or patch of some kind to
> fix it?

Did you run slapindex to generate the indices for your existing database?

If you modify slapd.conf with new indices, OpenLDAP will only add it for 
new/changed entries (2.3 with back-config actually does reindexing on the 
fly).

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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