> > On a related note, why is slapd so damn fragile? It's a righteous pain > > in the bum the way you have to run db_recover-X.Y /var/db/openldap-data > > if slapd fails to start. > Yes, this is a lot of pain. I have had issues the same way and never > figured out what the reason was. /var/ is very often corrupted after a > crash, power failure or unclean reboot. Maybe not slpad is that fragile, > but db47 is. Last June, we had to shutdown our openldap server every night, I noticed that a simple halt(8) would leave the bdb backend database in a corrupted state.
It worked well if I /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slapd stop and sync(8) a couple of type before I halt(8). After that I wrote a small script that would take a backup of the ldap data every 2 hours and keep 5 days of backup. It seems that Berkeley DB has a lot of options that need to be configured to be working optimally with openldap. Maybe soft-update should be desactivated from the filesystem where the db files reside. Bests, Olivier _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
