Re: Accesslog purge doesn't work in Openldap 2.4.21 - Ubuntu Lucid

[Brandon Hume <hume-ol@bofh.ca>]

 On 07/ 4/12 07:05 AM, Miguel Montero Rodríguez wrote:
> I've just seen that /var/lib/ldap/accesslog is growing so I've 
> realized that olcAccessLogPurge is not working properly (for example, 
> I have log.0000000001 file from 2011-09-10).

I believe you're confusing the accesslog purge with BerkeleyDB's 
internal bookkeeping.  olcAccessLogPurge will configure slapd cleaning 
out old LDAP entries which are used as the accesslog.  But remember that 
OpenLDAP runs on *top* of BerkeleyDB, if you're using the BDB and/or the 
HDB backends.  The log.* files in your data directory are there as part 
of BerkeleyDB, and OpenLDAP doesn't know about them.

You'll want to investigate the db_checkpoint and db_archive 
(specifically db_archive -a) commands, which will tell you which of 
those log.* files are old and unused and can be removed.  You might also 
be interested in the DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE flag in DB_CONFIG.

If you're running a modern release (and, really, if you participate in 
this list that's not optional...) you can also investigate using mdb as 
the backend, which does away with those files altogether.