2014-03-21 15:00 GMT+01:00 Gare Calhoun <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>

Hi Gare,



> I have a couple of questions about the most awesome OpenLDAP init script
> found at
> http://ltb-project.org/wiki/download
> and
> http://ltb-project.org/wiki/documentation/openldap-initscript
>
> ( "ltb-project-openldap-initscript-1.9")
>
>
> 1.  Is it pretty standard practice to do a db_recover on OpenLDAP startup?
>
>
>
No, it is not with recent versions of OpenLDAP (this is why db_recover at
startup is set to false by default). Since 2.4 (and maybe before), slapd
always do itself a db_recover at startup.


2.   The value of $dbsufs in its initial call by the backup() function
> below  is being initialized as "", then is being evaluated later on, and
> failing every time . My $DATA_PATH is not "auto" so $dbsufs is not being
> populated.
>
> I added these 2 lines and it works fine:
>        get_confvalues "suffix"
>         dbsufs=$RETVAL
>
> Either that or hard-code something like:
> dbsufs="dc=mycompany,dc=com"
>
> Or I could set my DATA_PATH to "auto".  :)
>
> I guess I just wanted to bring this to the attention of script authors :
> in the case where DATA_PATH is not set to auto, the dbsufs variable is not
> being populated in backup().
>
>
>
Thanks for this. Could you maybe open an issue on
http://tools.ltb-project.org/projects/ltb and provide your modifications as
a patch?


Clément.
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