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Re: (ITS#7280) accesslog write to subentry of log database

openldap@stormcloud9.net wrote:
> Full_Name: Patrick Hemmer
> Version: 2.4.31
> OS: Linux RHEL6
> URL:
> Submission from: (NULL) (98.211.220.204)
>
>
> This is a feature request (mostly).
>
> Currently the accesslog overlay is only capable of writing to the base DN of a
> log database, and not a subentry of that database. Specifying the DN to a
> specific subentry for the "logdb" parameter ends up writing to the base DN of
> the database instead.
>
> The main reason for this is so that multiple accesslog overlays can write to the
> same backend database, and not have to create a separate database for each
> overlay. Currently if you try to give multiple accesslog overlays the same
> database, it causes deadlock issues (or it appears to be a deadlock) and write
> operations end up hanging. I'm not sure if this should be considered a bug, or
> just noted as "don't try and do that".

Don't do that. Closing this ITS.

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