I've now got a simple script running that shuts down slapd, runs slapcat, and starts slapd back up. This all happens at about 3 A.M., and seems to work great so far. Thanks to all for your advice while I continue to explore LDAP. -Jeff Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > > --On Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:08 PM +0800 Roger Thomas > <sniper@home.net.my> wrote: > >> Quoting Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>: >> >>> Why in the world are you using ldbm? It is a known problematic >>> database >>> that has been removed from OpenLDAP 2.4, so it is not portable going >>> >>> forward. I highly advise using one of the supported backends (bdb or >>> hdb). >> >> Am currently running the old 2.0.5 on ldbm. Now how do I upgrade to 2.4? >> I mean how do I convert my existing records in ldbm format to bdb or hdb? >> >> I am no expert, please go slow. TIA. > > Well, to start, I wouldn't go to 2.4 quite yet, it is only in alpha. > But I would upgrade to 2.3.25+. > > To upgrade, you will need to export your database into LDIF format, > either via ldapsearch or slapcat. > > Then you'll need to import that LDIF file into a server running the > newer version of OpenLDAP (preferably with slapadd). I will note that > OL 2.0 was not very strict on data validation, so you may need to clean > up the data in your LDIF file some before an import will work correctly. > > You'll also need to set up a slapd.conf file that corresponds to the > newer syntaxes in 2.3. Reading the Admin Guide & Quickstart Guide @ > <http://www.openldap.org> is probably a good start for that. > > --Quanah > > > -- > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Principal Software Developer > ITS/Shared Application Services > Stanford University > GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html >
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