Re: I can't delete a shell DB

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Diego Woitasen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
> > Diego Woitasen wrote:
> > >   I was using shell backend and now switched to sock backend (shell
> > > looks unstable). My problem not is that I can't delete the shell DB.
> > >
> > > This is the entry in cn=config:
> > >
> > > dn: olcDatabase={3}shell,cn=config
> > > objectClass: olcShellConfig
> > > objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
> > > olcDatabase: {3}shell
> > >
> > > When I try to remove it I get Error 53 - Unwilling to perform.
> > >
> > > Looks like there is a dependency with this entry, but I don't see
> > > where. Is the last one, i removed the suffix.... hints?
> > >
> > > And don't see anything usefull in the logs.
> >
> > back-config does not support delete operation by default.
> >
> > You can enable delete support by compiling with
> > CFLAGS=".. -DSLAP_CONFIG_DELETE"
> >
> > Not sure whether that's officially supported/recommended by OpenLDAP
> > developers though.
> >
> > Ciao, Michael.
>
> No way to remove configuration??? Sounds really weird :P

From a philosophical standpoint - production configurations generally only 
grow. If you're mucking around and experimenting, you do that on a throw-away 
development system.

From a practical standpoint - behavior of the service when clients are making 
requests to a backend that gets removed is totally undefined.

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