Re: index_param failed

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

--On September 27, 2008 10:19:59 AM +0200 Denis BUCHER 
<dbucherml@hsolutions.ch> wrote:

> Hello !
>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount a Ãcrit :
> > > # slapindex
> > > bdb_db_open: database already in use
> > > backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed! (-1)
> > > slap_startup failed
> >
> > slapindex can only be run while the server is stopped.
>
> Ok, thanks a lot for your confirmation, but now I have a problem : the
> whole mail server (both SMTP and IMAP) are based on LDAP, therefore I
> can't stop LDAP without interrupting services, is there a "clean" way to
> do that ?
>
> Thanks a lot for any suggestions


Schedule downtime?

And I'd advise setting up at least one replica, etc, so you can have your 
services look at multiple LDAP servers, so LDAP isn't a single point of 
failure.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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