Re: berkeleydb logfiles

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

On 5/31/05 12:37 PM, Jonathan Higgins wrote:
>  
> I want to clean up these log files.  I have several replicas, and could
> roll downtime between the systems.
>  
> I am assuming the process will be to shutdown slapd, slapcat the data,
> ace(delete) the openldap-data files + logs, and then slapadd, then start
> slapd back up.

Uhm... no... I assume you have db_archive (or depending on how your 
slapd was built, perhaps it is named slapd_db_archive).  If you check 
its manpage will tell you how to safely delete the log files which are 
no longer needed without having to shutdown your servers at all.

F

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