Re: incomplete slapcat

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:38 PM -0700 Howard Chu 
> <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
>
> > Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > > --On Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:35 PM -0700 Bryan Irvine
> > > <sparctacus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 10/3/06, Robert Petkus <rpetkus@bnl.gov> wrote:
> > > > > Folks,
> > > > > We had a major meltdown of LDAP this morning.  I understood why, but
> > > > > the problem was restoring the database.  slapcat, no matter how
> > > > > invoked, would simply not dump the full contents of the database.  I
> > > > > needed to do a ldapsearch -L.  This one doesn't make sense to me --
> > > > > any ideas?? openldap-2.3.24
> > > > > db4-4.2.52
> > > >
> > > > tried db4_recover yet?
> > >
> > > Starting slapd would have run recovery.  I thought running slapcat 
> > > would
> > > too.  But that's why I wanted to know what type of meltdown happened.
> >
> > Not any more. Due to other complaints about slapcat unexpectedly leaving
> > DB environment files owned by root or some other unintended userID,
> > slapcat no longer performs recovery, it is strictly a read-only command.
> > But yes, slapd would have run recovery if needed.
>
> Okay.  Then that is likely why slapcat failed and ldapsearch worked. 
> ;) I'm guessing if slapcat were done now, it'd work just fine.
But, I guess, then slapcat should have complained and not run at all 
because the database couldn't be used without recover.

p.



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