Re: Problems with openLDAP 2.3

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 16:12:04 Admin wrote:
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 March 2008 18:44:00 Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> >> xjol0265 writes:
> >>> We are upgrading our servers to RedHat 5.1, and in the process trying
> >>> to migrate to openLDAP 2.3.27 (the latest version that RH provides).
> >>
> >> Note that RH's OpenLDAP version is primarily built (and tested) to
> >> provide LDAP libraries.  They care less about the server - they
> >> even link it with Berkeley DB version 4.3, which OpenLDAP configure
> >> normally refuses to use because it doesn't work well with OpenLDAP.
> >>
> >> So, you are better off building OpenLDAP and Berkeley DB yourself, or
> >> you can get a prebuilt bundle elsewhere.  Symas offers prebuilts
> >> (www.symas.com), and I think Buchan Milne keeps RPMs somewhere but
> >> I the URL I found doesn't answer now:
> >> <http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/buchan/openldap/>.
> >
> > I don't have access to anorien any more, not even to put up a notice that
> > the packages have moved to: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/
> >
> > 2.3.41 and 2.4.8 should appear this week if I'm not stuck in meetings
> > without wifi access too much.


> So the only suggestion is to install a different (non-RH) version and
> hope that helps?

No, upgrade to a version that has many bugfixes over the version you are 
currently running, and for which issues you log on the ITS that will be 
looked at by the developers. Note that I don't run back-sql myself ...

Or, log support tickets with Red Hat.

Regards,
Buchan