Re: my ldap hangup every time I used slapcat

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Magnus Morén wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
>   
> > That bug (ITS#3764) was fixed in June 2005, releases 2.2.27 and 2.3.4. 
> > You're obviously running something too old.
> >     
>
> I'm starting to realize that I run an old openldap release after
> watching this mail-list for some time.
>
> Here at the university we are using RHEL4 as the main linux server OS
> and the version included in that OS is: 2.2.13    :-(
>
> someserver# rpm -q openldap-servers
> openldap-servers-2.2.13-4
>
> When we started to use the LDAP-servers some time a go we choose to
> stick with this release to be able to use the RHN (updates and patches)
> services as we do on several other machines.
>
> We have had several occasions of both locked and corrupted databases
> over time. This may (or may not) be related to the old version.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1)  Anyone knows why it is that RedHat sticks to and old version of
> OpenLDAP if there are known bugs in it. They usually do a great job with
> most of their other software.
>   

That's a question that's best directed at RedHat.
> 2)  If I want to run a more up-to-date version. Any suggestions?
>     - build from source   or
>     - http://anorien.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/buchan/rhel4/openldap/   or
>     - other recommended rpm repository
>   
Personally, I think the CDS rpm's at www.symas.com are pretty good.  ;)

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