An interesting PANIC

[Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>]

OpenLDAP: 2.2.24
OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)

Problem: bdb(dc=uvm,dc=edu): PANIC: fatal region error detected; run 
recovery

Somehow a bdb log file got created and owned by root.  Based on the 
timestamp and the contents of the log, it appears that it happened 
because the nightly slapcat (which runs as root) did a checkpoint. 
Either that or it was absolute coincidence that the checkpoint was run 
at the exact same time (00:17:09) as the slapcat.  Slapd runs as user 
ldap, so I don't know how slapd would have created the log file owned by 
root.

Should slapcat be doing checkpoints?  Is this a known problem?  Do I 
need to change the way the ldap user is defined on the Red Hat system so 
the slapcat can run as user ldap?

Thanks,
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Frank Swasey                    | http://www.uvm.edu/~fcs
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