Re: Corrupt LDAP DB ...

["C.Lee Taylor" <leet@leenx.co.za>]

Greetings ...

	Thanks for you input ...

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Try reading the man page specific to the BDB backend: slapd-bdb
	Thanks, found it.

> RedHat's support of OpenLDAP has always been bad.  They have been the 
> absolute worst linux distro to run LDAP on using what they ship that 
> I've seen.
	Well, can't have everything for free and expect it to be perfect, where 
would the fun be in that ...

> You aren't stopping slapd when you wipe your database?  That's really 
> bad.... And you need to stop slapd to run slapadd or to run db recovery.
	No, I don't need to stop slapd, because it's not in memory, as there is 
no pid and there are no files open for the LDAP DB ... I was just saying 
that by the time we see that LDAP has crash, it has crash ... We can't 
even start it up again.

	Then we move the DB dir to a backup location and create the complete DB 
structure from scratch, then import the LDAP DB by doing a slapadd and 
then an slapindex just to make sure it's all in place. Then change owner 
and perms.  Then restart the LDAP server and all is well again for a few 
days ...

> I highly suggest moving to 2.3, because it will take care of a number of 
> issues.  However, you seem to have a lack of the basic concepts 
> necessary to run an LDAP server, so I also suggest you do a bit of reading.
	I would like to move to 2.3, and have been watching it's development 
for a while, as I did 2.1, and 2.2, but that did not put me off using them.

	I have been running OpenLDAP for a long time, and believe myself enough 
read to be able to mange my small setup, it's that the basic install of 
a FC/RH system does seem to have a problem, and that is why I have ask 
the people that use, if they have any ideas of what I might be doing 
wrong. I have searched the net to see if anyone else might have had 
similar problems, but it's seem I'm the only bloke that can corrupt his 
LDAP DB without doing all his homework!?

	I have found ways around this corruption, written a few scripts to 
backup, restore and sync the LDAP DB with little effort at the moment, 
but I don't believe that LDAP should just stop working for no reason I'm 
able to find at the moment.

	If it's is a miss configuration, please help me, to find it and fix it, 
and document it so that nobody else runs into this problem.

Thanks
Mailed
Lee