Re: Slapindex not working?

[Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 15:08 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> [ Yes, I read the archives! ]
> 
> OpenLDAP 2.2.17, compiled from FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE ports.
> 
> Using Ryan Matteson's cool "ldap-stats.pl" script, I discovered I had an 
> unindexed attribute "uid".  So, I update slapd.conf and run slapindex, yet 
> I'm still seeing these in the log:
> 
> Jan 20 14:38:34 guido slapd[56151]: <= bdb_substring_candidates: (uid) 
> index_param failed (18)
> 
> Yes, I shut down SLAPD :-)
> 
> slapd.conf:
> index   employeeNumber,uid,sn,cn,ciApp,ciHost           eq,pres,sub
> (was just "eq,pres")
> 
> command:
> ldapsearch -C -v -LLL -H "$LDAPURI" "(&(objectClass=ciEmployee)(uid=dave*))" \
>         dn uid cn sn telephoneNumber
> 
> The odd thing was, it improved wall-clock time by an order of magnitude,
> so it did *something*.
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is it possible that the resulting uid.bdb isn't owned by ldap?

Craig