Re: 2.3 slapd_db_recover

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On May 25, 2007 1:53:04 PM -0700 Craig <craig5@pobox.com> wrote:

> Hmm... it seems related:
>
> $ slapd_db_recover blah
> usage: db_recover [-ceVv] [-h home] [-P password] [-t
> [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]]
>
> (I am assuming it is related because the useage line refers to
> "db_recover" and not "slapd_db_recover".)
>
> However, they are not identical:
> $ ll /usr/bin/db_recover
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 8704 Feb 21  2005 /usr/bin/db_recover
> $ ll /usr/sbin/slapd_db_recover
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 8932 Aug 12  2006 /usr/sbin/slapd_db_recover
>
> Obviously, the difference may be superficial.
>
> But, I'd still like to know where the "slapd_db_*" apps come from.
>
> BTW, I run CentOS 4.4 and the rpm came from the centos repo:
> http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/openldap-ser
> vers-2.2.13-6.4E.i386.rpm

MyÂguess would be it is the version of db_recover that matches the version 
of BDB that OpenLDAP was compiled with.

For example, you cannot use the BDB 4.3 db_recover command to recover a BDB 
4.2 database, etc.  So they are simply trying to protect the user by having 
them use "slapd_*" named BDB commands so that things are known to match up.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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