Re: LDAP/BDB log purging

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni@hetnet.nl>]

Manuel Molina Cuberos wrote, on 09. mar 2007 13:39:

[...]

> I have followed the thread, because we're upgrading to the lastest
> stable release of OpenLDAP, compiling from the sources. In the other
> hand, we're doing this on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and we have linking
> agaisnt db4-4.2.52-7.1.
>
> Do you recommend compiling db4 4.5.20 from the sources and link OpenLDAP
> 2.3.32 agaisnt it ?

Whatever you do, don't use Red Hat's standard db4-4.2.52-7.1 with OL 
2.3: it isn't patched as required (it's from 2004 and has never been 
modified). You should either build Buchan Milne's OL 2.3 latest srpm 
configured to build and use a correctly patched, discrete version of 
db4-4.2.52 or I can give you correctly patched 4.2.52 rpms.

Do try *not* to use source-compiled db4 (in your case 4.5.20) on 
RHAS/RHEL, as it installs to non-standard (non-FHS) directories and will 
get you into all kinds of a mess later. As a pointer, try never to 
install non-rpm software on RHAS/RHEL, this after 4-5 years as Red Hat 
administrator and having done it all myself, earlier ;)

Best,

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl