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Re: An interesting PANIC

To: Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: An interesting PANIC
From: Jan-Piet Mens <jpm@retail-sc.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 10:52:49 +0200
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
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On Tue May 03 2005 at 10:18:02 CEST, Frank Swasey wrote:

> Problem: bdb(dc=uvm,dc=edu): PANIC: fatal region error detected; run 
> recovery
> 
> Somehow a bdb log file got created and owned by root.  Based on the 
> timestamp and the contents of the log, it appears that it happened 
> because the nightly slapcat (which runs as root) did a checkpoint. 

To avoid those, I use a tiny executable wrapper suid to the ldap user
and group. I needed that because I was getting the same panics every
time db_recover et al ran (we do a db_recover before slapd starts up).

My backup script then does:
	uldap slapcat -f ${instance}.conf -l "${LDIF}"

If you need the tiny program, drop me a line.

	-JP

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