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Re: back-config again

At 10:41 AM 4/4/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>One thing I hope will remain fairly easy to do automatically, and to
>administer, is to build a fresh database "outside" the running slapd,
>and then take slapd down to replace the database.

I'd like to be able to do that WITHOUT taking slapd down.

>That is,
>
>  Given a database in directory 'DBDIR',
>
>  mkdir DBDIR-new,
>  sed 's!DBDIR!DBDIR-new!' < slapd.conf > slapd.conf.tmp,
>  slapadd -f slapd.conf.tmp,
>
>  kill slapd and wait for its death,
>  mv DBDIR DBDIR-old,
>  mv DBDIR-new DBDIR,
>  start slapd.
>
>Well, it's a bit more robust than that:-) and there are several
>databases in slapd.conf.
>
>-- 
>Hallvard