Re: cleaning up logs from bdb db and upgrading ldap

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

--On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:22 PM -0500 "Douglas B. Jones" 
<douglas@gpc.edu> wrote:

> I noticed the that I am getting a number of bdb logs (log.0000000000 ..
> 210) so far for one db. What is the proper procedure for consolidating
> these with openldap while keeping the server process running. We have
> version 2.3.27, but plan on upgrading to 2.3.33.

See the options for DB_CONFIG.  In particular:

set_flags DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE



> The second question: is the best way to migrate from one ldap version to
> another to slapcat from the old one and the slapadd to the new one? I
> realize if I do this way, I would in essence have an answer for the first
> question, but the first one I was wondering from a live point of view.

There's no reason to slapcat/slapadd between minor patch levels 
(2.3.27->2.3.33).  All OpenLDAP releases so far have required 
slapcat/slapadd between major revisions (2.2->2.3, etc).  Same thing if you 
change versions of BDB (4.2 -> 4.4 for example).

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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