Re: OpenLDAP 2.2 and db4 under RHEL4 on Xen 3.0

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael Torrie wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 23:43 -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>   
> > I'm assuming by a "dbm" backend, you mean ldbm.  Of course, ldbm is not 
> > recommended for use, because of its many problems.  Honestly, if you are 
> > looking to run a directory service, I would highly advise you dump Xen, and 
> > use something where BDB is supported (and I'd suggest running OpenLDAP 
> > 2.3.20 (or higher, if newer releases have been made by the time you get to 
> > it)).
> >     
>
> Unfortunately 2.3.20 is not an option.  This xen server (which is not in
> production at this moment) syncs (or will sync) using slurpd off of our
> production servers which are all 2.2, and cannot be changed until the
> next hardware/OS upgrade cycle.

2.3.20 will accept slurpd updates from a 2.2 server.
>   I will be getting the syncrep stuff
> going soon which I understand will can allow two different versions of
> OpenLDAP to sync.  Even at that point, when this xen machine goes into
> production we have to, as much as possible, stick with maintainable RPM
> packages that are vendor supported.  I've maintained servers using
> source tarballs before.  It's not fun.
>   
In general, if you want RPMs that are actually supported by a vendor 
then you should look into www.symas.com's CDS downloads.

Of course, we haven't looked into the Xen problems yet. I feel it's 
still premature; VMware on the other hand is a no-brainer.

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