Re: slapd refuses to die

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, November 07, 2003 3:14 AM -0500 james liang 
<blueyonder@excite.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running openldap 2.1.22 on a redhat 8 box with replication turn on.
> sometimes when i tried to stop slapd by doing: kill -HUP <pid>, the slapd
> refuses to die.  I ended up having to do kill -9.  Unfortunately when i
> do kill -9, the bdb database sometime gets corrupted in the process.
>
> Any reason why a normal kill -HUP doesn't work consistently?  I did
> verifed that there are no other clients apps using the slapd before I
> tired to kill it.  I would like to avoid kill -9 since I have corrupted
> the bdb before.

I always do a kill -INT.  Note that when you tell slapd to shut down, it 
will checkpoint the BDB database.  If you don't have checkpointing set in 
slapd.conf, and you have had a lot of changes, it may take a while for 
slapd to stop.  You could also truss the process to see if it is doing 
anything or not.

--Quanah


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