I can't delete a shell DB

2013-04-17 Thread Diego Woitasen
Hi, I was using shell backend and now switched to sock backend (shell looks unstable). My problem not is that I can't delete the shell DB. This is the entry in cn=config: dn: olcDatabase={3}shell,cn=config objectClass: olcShellConfig objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig olcDatabase: {3}shell When I

Re: I can't delete a shell DB

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Ströder
Diego Woitasen wrote: I was using shell backend and now switched to sock backend (shell looks unstable). My problem not is that I can't delete the shell DB. This is the entry in cn=config: dn: olcDatabase={3}shell,cn=config objectClass: olcShellConfig objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig

Re: I can't delete a shell DB

2013-04-17 Thread Diego Woitasen
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Michael Ströder mich...@stroeder.com wrote: Diego Woitasen wrote: I was using shell backend and now switched to sock backend (shell looks unstable). My problem not is that I can't delete the shell DB. This is the entry in cn=config: dn:

Re: I can't delete a shell DB

2013-04-17 Thread Howard Chu
Michael Ströder wrote: Diego Woitasen wrote: I was using shell backend and now switched to sock backend (shell looks unstable). My problem not is that I can't delete the shell DB. This is the entry in cn=config: dn: olcDatabase={3}shell,cn=config objectClass: olcShellConfig objectClass:

Re: I can't delete a shell DB

2013-04-17 Thread Howard Chu
Diego Woitasen wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Michael Ströder mich...@stroeder.com wrote: Diego Woitasen wrote: I was using shell backend and now switched to sock backend (shell looks unstable). My problem not is that I can't delete the shell DB. This is the entry in cn=config:

Re: I can't delete a shell DB

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: From a philosophical standpoint - production configurations generally only grow. IMO this general assumption is not valid. If you're mucking around and experimenting, you do that on a throw-away development system. Well, one should always experiment on a dedicated test

Re: I can't delete a shell DB

2013-04-17 Thread Howard Chu
Michael Ströder wrote: From a practical standpoint - behavior of the service when clients are making requests to a backend that gets removed is totally undefined. LDAP clients do not care about (OpenLDAP) database backends at all. They simply query a DIT. Yes, but they expect to get

Re: I can't delete a shell DB

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: Michael Ströder wrote: From a practical standpoint - behavior of the service when clients are making requests to a backend that gets removed is totally undefined. LDAP clients do not care about (OpenLDAP) database backends at all. They simply query a DIT. Yes, but