Re: (ITS#4778) Problem using Berkeley DB replication in OpenLDAP

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

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Kurt

At 05:52 PM 12/13/2006, seuler.shi@gmail.com wrote:
>Full_Name: Seuler Shi
>Version: 2.3.30
>OS: Fedora 5 Linux
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>Submission from: (NULL) (194.138.202.50)
>
>
>Problem using BDB as backend of OpenLDAP
>
>Software version:
>Berkeley DB: 4.5.20
>OpenLDAP:2.3.30 
>
>We want to configure the replication management in OpenLDAP's backend database.
>All write requests in OpenLDAP master site will spread to OpenLDAP client site 
>for we have configured the backend database replication.
>
>We mend the source code the OpenLDAP according to the rep_mgr example provide by
>
>Berkeley DB.
>
>A test case is executed as follow:
>
>step 1: start openldap server site and client site;
>step 2: send write requests to the master site;
>step 3: search the master site and ensure the records are inserted in backend;
>database successfully;
>
>step 4: search the client site, but not ldap entry is displayed;
>step 5: kill the client site process and reboot it;
>step 5: search the client site right now after it reboot;
>
>Result: After step 5(reboot the client site), the search results from client
>site
>is same as the master site.
> 
>At step 4: If we intend to insert an entry into the openLDAP server with BDB
>client configuration via ldapadd command, it will return "the entry already
>exists". After the failed insert operation, if search operation is executed, one
>entry will be displayed.Once a insert operation is tried, the number of entries
>in the subsequent search will  increase by 1.
> 
>
>
>My question:
>
>Why we can not search any info during the client is normally running? But once
>I rebooted the client site, it worked well and could accept search requests?
>How to solve this problem:)