Re: Deleting a tree

[Raf Meeusen <meeusen@acunia.com>]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Jon Miner wrote:

> * Raf Meeusen (meeusen@acunia.com) [030106 11:34]:
> > > What is the absolute fastest way to delete a subtree in open ldap?  I know
> > > about ldapdelete, but is there another way to do it?
> > 
> > ldapdelete is the safest way to do it, and probably the fastest too.  You 
> > could consider editing your backend-DB directly, but it would require 
> > extensive DB knowledge (not mentioning the probability of a corrupted 
> > LDAP tree)...
> 
> With ldapdelete you'll have to delete the tree from leaves down..  You
> can't just delete the root of a tree that has children..

yes you can.  You have an option -r with recursively deletes a subtree...  

kr,

Raf

> 
> jon
> 
> 

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