Re: bdb binary log files

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Piotr Wadas <pwadas@dtpw.pl> writes:

> Hello,
> I'm using openldap 2.4.11 on linux x86 system, with
> one database bdb backend, with the following options
> in slapd.conf file:
>
> database        bdb
> [..]
> dbnosync
> cachesize       1000
> checkpoint      0 0
> [..]

Are you really sure to not have any checkpointing?

>
> Is it possible to disable bdb log.00000[0..n] files
> completely? I can slapcat the database, then
> remove these, slapadd and reindex database, and there's
> no logs, but is it possible to avoid creating them?
> Or set up some limit of numer/size of them ? Let's assume
> I don't need logs. I hate logs. I don't wany any logs, whatever :)
> I reviewed bdb documentation, but there's no clear information
> how to control this.

The log files are transaction logs, the information in this log files
is required for database recovery.

> Additionally - when I have a "DB_CONFIG" file in /etc/ldap, and
> a DB_CONFIG file in database storage dir, e.g. /var/lib/ldap, which
> one is actually used? My guess'd be /var/lib/ldap/DB_CONFIG, but
> I'd like to know for sure :-)

The DB_CONFIG file is to be placed in the database directory, that is
in your case most likely /var/lib/ldap

-Dieter

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