I did some googling for the "modifyTimestamp" and found a few references, but nothing that tells me how I can access the attribute's value and make use of it. I also googled for the phrase "operational attribute" and I didn't find anything helpful. Could someone please point me to some examples, FAQs, or other documentation? Thanks, Rob Howard Chu said the following on 11/15/2006 07:35 PM: > Rob Tanner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to get last modified timestamps, etc, on individual entries in >> OpenLDAP just as I get them in my about to be retired Netscape >> server. But I noticed that that lastmod overlay is not built by >> default when you >> compile from source (one needs to include the "--enable-lastmod" when >> running configure). And so, of course, my current binary doesn't >> support that function. Is there a downside to using the lastmod >> overlay? Can I just recompile and reinstall and not have to actually >> rebuild the database, or do I have to dump the database and reload it >> again? > > I don't think the lastmod overlay does what you think it does. That > overlay records the last modification made to any entry in the > database, onto an attribute on the root entry of the database. Also, > there's an outstanding ITS against this overlay, so it is apparently > broken at the moment. > > OpenLDAP already records the last modified timestamp on individual > entries; it's in the "modifyTimestamp" operational attribute. > -- Rob Tanner UNIX Services Manager Linfield College, McMinnville OR
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