Re: Where is DB_CONFIG file?

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

--On Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:21 PM +0100 Dieter Kluenter 
<dieter@dkluenter.de> wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> writes:
>
> > ----- Echedey Lorenzo <echedey@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think the best option, as you suggest, is to recreate
> > > everything. Is it enough to remove all /var/lib/ldap contents,
> > > restart the ldap service, and populate all again? My intention is to
> > > have 8M entries as max.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help
> >
> > There is zero need to recreate everything. Dieter is wrong. Simply
> > stop slapd, create the DB_CONFIG file, run db_recover to regenerate
> > the bdb database profile, then start slapd. This has been the standard
> > way to do this since OpenLDAP 2.1. Dieter should know this.
>
> I have experienced some problems in the past, that's why I prefer a
> clean recreation.

Then you should have collected data and filed an ITS.  I've never had a 
problem in nearly 10 years of configuring and modifying DB_CONFIG files 
back to 2.1.4 when it's done correctly.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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