Hello Torsten.
On Mon, 23 May 2005 17:11:44 +0200
you wrote:
TL> Looks like we should do that after bazillions of people requested it.
TL> Any suggestions how to implement this correctly?
The attached patch adds calling db4.2_recover to slapd.init on every
slapd startup.
diff -Nru openldap2.2-2.2.23/debian/slapd.init
openldap2.2-hack/debian/slapd.init
--- openldap2.2-2.2.23/debian/slapd.init 2005-05-24 19:42:21.000000000
+0800
+++ openldap2.2-hack/debian/slapd.init 2005-05-25 23:15:35.000000000 +0800
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
"$SLAPD_CONF"`
fi
+# Find out slapd db directories
+SLAPD_DBDIRS=`sed -ne 's/^directory[[:space:]]\+"*\([^"]\+\).*/\1/p' \
+ "$SLAPD_CONF" `
+
# XXX: Breaks upgrading if there is no pidfile (invoke-rc.d stop will fail)
# -- Torsten
if [ -z "$SLAPD_PIDFILE" ]; then
@@ -107,6 +111,24 @@
}
+# Try to recover slapd database
+try_fix_db() {
+ if [ "$SLAPD_TRYFIXDB" != yes -o \
+ -z "$SLAPD_DBDIRS" ]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+ echo -n " (possibly) fixing db,"
+ for DBDIR in $SLAPD_DBDIRS; do
+ if [ -d "$DBDIR" -a -f "$DBDIR/objectClass.bdb" ]; then
+ db4.2_recover -eh $DBDIR 2>&1
+ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+ reason="Automatic recovery of slapd database failed. You
will need to perform recovery by hand, possibly from backup."
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ fi
+ done
+}
+
# Start the slapd daemon and capture the error message if any to
# $reason.
start_slapd() {
@@ -157,6 +179,7 @@
start() {
echo -n "Starting OpenLDAP:"
trap 'report_failure' 0
+ try_fix_db
start_slapd
start_slurpd
trap "-" 0
