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Dear Quanah and list users,

Thank you for this info.
As Satoh Fumiyasu points out, it's not BDB 4.3.29 but BDB 4.4.20 on
CentOS/RHEL 5.3.
But indeed as you suggest, if we need a real solution it would be better
to either get support from RedHat or build OpenLDAP ourselves.

Best regards,

Oliver

Dans sa grande sagesse, Quanah Gibson-Mount a écrit, le 23.09.2009 16:58 :
> --On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:36 PM +0200 Oliver Henriot
> <Oliver.Henriot@imag.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> I'm using Openldap 2.3.43-3.el5 with BDB 4.3.29 on CentOS 5.3.
> 
> This is not a supported configuration.  OpenLDAP has specifically not
> allowed compilation against BDB 4.3.29 for quite some time, due to its
> unreliability.
> 
> Using the "checkpoint" directive in slapd.conf/cn=config is what is
> supported, and is known to work if you use an actual supported version
> of BDB with OpenLDAP.
> 
> I suggest buying RHEL, and filing a bug with the RedHat folks for
> deliberately mucking with the OpenLDAP configure and bypassing a
> safeguard put into place by the OpenLDAP project.  This is a RedHat
> inflicted issue, and not anything the OpenLDAP project can help you with.
> 
> Alternatively, build OpenLDAP yourself against a supported BDB release.
> I'd suggest OpenLDAP 2.4.18 with BDB 4.7.25+patches or BDB 4.8.
> 
> --Quanah
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Engineer
> Zimbra, Inc
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