Re: [LONG] Re: LDAP Server backups

[Rich Graves <rcgraves@brandeis.edu>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 wesley.craig@umich.edu wrote:

> I have a question and a comments.  First, does killproc on linux wait
> for the process to die?

"Linux" can mean many things. On RedHat 6.2, no. Worse, it'll kill -9 slapd
if it takes more that 0.1 seconds to die. What's that likely to do to your
database? You might want to run killall -w with a timeout instead.

Here's the fragment from /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions.

                           kill -TERM $pid
                           usleep 100000
                           if ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
                                sleep 1
                                if ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
                                        sleep 3
                                        if ps h $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
                                           kill -KILL $pid
                                        fi

> Second, our "private" slave also thinks it is a master, and so creates
> a relog.  We have a cron job that saves the replog each hour for a
> week.  With a weeks worth of ldifs and relogs, we can recreate the
> database at any point in the week.  This offers us protection from

What does your cron job do to rotate the replog safely? I've just been
moving it then kill -HUP.
-- 
Rich Graves <rcgraves@brandeis.edu>
UNet Systems Administrator