Re: incomplete slapcat

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

--On Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:38 PM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> 
wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > --On Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:35 PM -0700 Bryan Irvine
> > <sparctacus@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 10/3/06, Robert Petkus <rpetkus@bnl.gov> wrote:
> > > > Folks,
> > > > We had a major meltdown of LDAP this morning.  I understood why, but
> > > > the problem was restoring the database.  slapcat, no matter how
> > > > invoked, would simply not dump the full contents of the database.  I
> > > > needed to do a ldapsearch -L.  This one doesn't make sense to me --
> > > > any ideas?? openldap-2.3.24
> > > > db4-4.2.52
> > >
> > > tried db4_recover yet?
> >
> > Starting slapd would have run recovery.  I thought running slapcat would
> > too.  But that's why I wanted to know what type of meltdown happened.
>
> Not any more. Due to other complaints about slapcat unexpectedly leaving
> DB environment files owned by root or some other unintended userID,
> slapcat no longer performs recovery, it is strictly a read-only command.
> But yes, slapd would have run recovery if needed.

Okay.  Then that is likely why slapcat failed and ldapsearch worked. ;) 
I'm guessing if slapcat were done now, it'd work just fine.

--Quanah


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