Re: Proper Settings for DB_CONFIG

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Monday, February 02, 2009 1:48 PM -0800 Tim Gustafson 
<tjg@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:

> So my questions are:
>
> 1. Where should I be putting my Berkeley DB configuration options,
> especially related to automated checkpoints and automatic log removal?
> slapd.conf or DB_CONFIG?

Whichever you prefer.  All doing it in slapd.conf does is make it create a 
DB_CONFIG file with those options.  I will note that the "checkpoint" 
directive in slapd.conf is not a DB_CONFIG file option.

> 2. Is there some other option I have to use to have slapd actually remove
> old log files once they're not needed for a transaction anymore?

The option to remove old log files is a DB_CONFIG option that you can put 
into slapd.conf.  See the DB_CONFIG documentation.  You must also have 
check points defined.


> By the way, this is mostly a problem for my slapo-accesslog database,
> which has significantly more data in it (by a factor of almost 100) than
> my actual database.  The insanity of all this is that I really just need
> to grab the last successful bind and last unsuccessful bind date for each
> user account, and I can't seem to find a better way to do it than with
> slapo-accesslog.  Is there some other much more obvious flag or something
> I could set on my LDAP server that would just record the last bind
> attempt timestamps for each user account?

Use ppolicy maybe?  I think that has last login tracking info.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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