Hi! Red Hat 7.2 much modified, openldap 2.1.3, Berkeley DB4, full pam and nss support. Firstly, I wouldn't be asking this, were it not for the many knowledgeable people in the group who gave hints and instructions to get things up and running. I simply wouldn't have got anywhere near today's level on my own. So thank you all. Secondly: Still at the stage where, as Unix sysadmin and long-time NIS sceptic, the possibilities of the whole thing for organization-wide administration and delegation seem like utter magic. I've always admired Novell's NDS immensely, now I have a Unix DS that can integrate with it. What's more, openldap is transparent and comes with a wealth of tools, whereas NDS is all point and click and pray for the best. Specifically: I've read as much of the docs that come with Berkeley DB4 and openldap 2.1.3. Plus Adam's ldapv3.pdf, IBM's stuff and much else. But the possibilities of DB4 leave me breathless. I've already discovered I can make hot tar and cpio backups, shut down slapd, delete the whole database and restore it with impunity. However, there is much specific to the openldap DB4 implementation that's not documented. Berkeley's docs stress that they cover libraries, not an implementation. For example, the database transaction log file is growing and I can't find anything about log rotation. Database files are growing, don't know how to rid them of faults. Etc. etc. I wouldn't know how BDB 4 differs from BDB 3, and I don't know if there are relevant docs on the latter. Can anyone point me to docs that cover the above, missing, openldap DB4 database administration? Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw e-post: tonni@billy.demon.nl www: http://www.billy.demon.nl gpg public key: http://www.billy.demon.nl/tonni.armor Telefoon: (+31) (0)172 530428 Mobiel: (+31) (0)6 51153356 GPG Fingerprint = 3924 6BF8 A755 DE1A 4AD6 FA2B F7D7 6051 3BE7 B981 3BE7B981
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