Re: bdb backend - reliable or not?

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

--On Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:58 PM +0200 Tomasz Chmielewski 
<mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote:

> Matthew Hardin wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:owner-openldap-
> > > software@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Maher
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:55 AM
> > > To: openldap
> > > Subject: RE: bdb backend - reliable or not?
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea where might we locate this special startup script?
> > > :)
> >
> >
> > In OpenLDAP 2.3 2.3 slapd automatically recovers the database when
> > needed. There is no special startup script needed.
>
> So, will it recover, or will it not?
> I'm confused, I use 2.3.6, and it doesn't recover. After reading lots of
> posts in this thread, I would say db_recover is needed after an unclean
> shutdown.
>
> Did you mean a recent 2.3 version (2.3.24 or so)?

If you bothered to read the first email I sent you on this email, you'd 
note that I specifically said there were bugs in the auto-recovery feature 
introduced in OpenLDAP 2.3 in the early releases, and to use the latest 
release.  Which you should be doing anyway for any number of reasons.

--Quanah


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