thanks. I sort this one out.
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>
To: wailok tam <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: getting warning:var/lib/ldap/__db.004 is not owned by "ldap" and
ldap wont start
--On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:36 AM +0000 wailok tam
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, all, I get the warning given in the title and ldap stops even after
> reporting to start successfully.
>
>
> The error is fixed by doing a chown for the affected files. It was
> mysteriously changed to root.
> I change it back to ldap and it works again. However, I want to know what
> has caused this to happen.
> Anyone can help?
This often happens when someone has a cron job running via root. In any
case, slapd itself will not change the ownership of those files unless you
start it as root instead of your ldap user.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Server Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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