RE: LDBM VS. BDB on OpenBSD 3.9

["Marc Suttle" <marc.suttle@anidirect.com>]

 Quanah,
	Thanks for your quick answer.  I would love to be at the latest
and greatest but it is such a pain to install everything.  Would I
simply just compile the latest version of BD from sleepycats and then
compile Openldap with the normal --configure lines?  I need TLS support,
slave replication, and BDB support.  Please point me in the right
direction for compile options and I will try it.  HA...I swear every
time you guys say to upgrade.  At least OpenBSD is doing a little better
than some of the other flavors out there ;).  Then when the new version
comes out in a couple of day is the upgrade easy? Just recompile?  These
are the kind of questions that make me stay away from compiling.  I do
agree with you however.

On to my un-answered question.  How do I register BDB so that OpenLDAP
will work on my OpenBSD system?  I have a feeling I will get the same
issue even if I compile it from scratch.  I looked in the BDB faqs on
the website for *BSD and all the answers seem to point to an older
version of the software.  The directories mentioned for OpenBSD do not
even exist.

One last thing.  Where do I get more information on checkpointing?  Is
it done by default.  I will compile the latest version.  I PROMISE!!!
Hehe.  

Awesome list!  Thanks!

Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@stanford.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:39 PM
To: Marc Suttle; openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: LDBM VS. BDB on OpenBSD 3.9



--On Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:19 PM -0500 Marc Suttle
<marc.suttle@anidirect.com> wrote:

> List,
> 	The subject in a way sums it up.
>
> Out of the box I have installed the following binary packages from the

> latest release of OpenBSD 3.9:
>
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.21p2 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security
> Layer)
> db-4.2.52p8         Berkeley DB package, revision 4
> openldap-client-2.3.11p4 Open source LDAP software (client)
> openldap-server-2.3.11p4 Open source LDAP software (server)
>
> Configured slapd.conf and it is using database bdb.  However when I 
> start up slapd I get:
>
>#  /usr/local/libexec/slapd -u _openldap -g _openldap  Unrecognized 
>database type (bdb)
>
> Should I just use ldbm which I know works or get the ld stuff done to 
> get BDB working?  It is a LDAP database that will have about 500 
> entries and very low activity. It is just for enrollment purposes.  If

> I SHOULD use BDB anyone know how successfully register it on OpenBSD 
> 3.x when installed from packages?  It also needs to work after a
reboot.

LDBM is a problematic backend that is being removed from OpenLDAP with
the
2.4 release.  I think it would be well worth your time to use BDB.  I
will note that OpenLDAP 2.3 support auto recover on reboot, so assuming
you have properly configured OpenLDAP (checkpointing, etc), you can
reboot without too much issue.  Of course, you should always shut down
slapd cleanly before rebooting so that anything in the cache that hasn't
been checkpointed yet is written to disk...

I will note, however, that the people responsible for packaging OpenLDAP
for your distribution appear to be woefully behind in their duties, as
the current OpenLDAP release is 2.3.21 (and 2.3.22 will be out in a few
days). 
I would advise using the latest release of OpenLDAP, as hundreds of
bugs, some critical, have been fixed since 2.3.11 was released.


--Quanah




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