Re: Index problems: search results returning no responses

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Graham Leggett wrote:
>  Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > Did you run slapindex to generate the indices for your existing
> > database?
> >
> > If you modify slapd.conf with new indices, OpenLDAP will only add
> > it for new/changed entries (2.3 with back-config actually does
> > reindexing on the fly).
>
>  No, I didn't - there was no warning message in the config file or the
>  syslog warning that this was necessary.
>
>  Is it possible to document this in the default slapd.conf file under
>  the section where indexes are listed to say that this is required?

The slapd-bdb(5) manpage already says "Note: changing index settings 
requires rebuilding indices, see slapindex(8)." The default slapd.conf 
is not intended to be a substitute for reading the actual documentation.

>  Or even better, is it possible for openldap to detect when the
>  indexes have been changed, and make sure they are up to date on
>  startup or on reload?

Not in OpenLDAP 2.2, since that release is feature-frozen now and going 
into end-of-life soon. If you want dynamic index management use OpenLDAP 
2.3.
>  Regards, Graham --

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