Re: berkeleydb logfiles

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Jonathan Higgins wrote:

> hello,
>
> unfortunately drive space on a few of my openldap implementations is
> becoming an issue.  I rarely mess with my implementation because it
> performs very well.  Thanks Howard and Symas.
>  
You're welcome ;)  After all, making OpenLDAP work is what we do...

> in my DB_CONFIG, i have set_lg_dir /usr/local/var/openldap-data/logs
> In that log directory if I run a du -h, its around 6 gigs worth of log
> files.  
>
> I want to clean up these log files.  I have several replicas, and could
> roll downtime between the systems.
>
> I am assuming the process will be to shutdown slapd, slapcat the data,
> ace(delete) the openldap-data files + logs, and then slapadd, then start
> slapd back up.
>
> A fairly involved process, plus possible replication issues.  Just want
> to confirm this process, or findout if there is a better way.
The correct procedure is much simpler than this and fully documented in 
the Sleepycat Berkeley DB documentation. You can find pointers in the 
OpenLDAP FAQ-o-Matic "Maintenance" section

http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=286

which will give an overview along with references to the actual 
Sleepycat manual pages.

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