Re: openldap becomes unresponsive

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:12 AM +1100 Daniel Buttigieg 
> <dbuttigieg@swin.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are running the standard openldap-2.2.13 and Berkeley DB 4.2.52
> > packages on a RHEL 4 server.
>
> The current OpenLDAP release is OpenLDAP 2.4.7.  Your release is years 
> out of date and thousands of bug fixes behind.
>
> Please note that the packages "provided" by redhat are not to be used 
> for running an OpenLDAP server.  They are installed for the client 
> libraries so that other ldap aware utilities can use them.  Using the RH 
> provided packages puts your data at extreme risk.
>
> If you wish to use OpenLDAP on RHEL, I highly advise that you use the 
> packages provided by Symas (<http://www.symas.com>) or by Buchan Milne 
> (<http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/>).
>
> As a side note, 2.2.13 was a very early 2.2 release, and known to have 
> many problems fixed later in the 2.2 series.  I also highly doubt that 
> the version of BDB 4.2.52 shipped with RH has the required BDB patches.
>
> --Quanah

I think we should have an auto parser for any e-mail that contains 2.2, 
RHEL or Red Hat and send out this response ;-)


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