Re: problems with bdb-indexes

[peter pilsl <pilsl@goldfisch.at>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> > when slapd is started, so I dont think I need to manually create the 
> > index after
> >   setting an index to an already existing ldap-datebase. I also didnt 
> > find
> > anything in the docs about creating an index mannually.
>
> That's funny. In slapd-bdb( 5 ) I see:
>  index {<attrlist>|default} [pres,eq,approx,sub,<special>]
>               Specify the indexes to maintain for the given attribute 
> (or list
>               of  attributes). .... Note:  changing  index  settings 
> requires
>               rebuilding indices, see slapindex(8).

thnx. thats it. Dont know why I didnt see that. I read this man-page before 
asking. I'm completely new to ldap and I'm very confused with loads of things, 
and seems I was focused on keywords like "reindex" ..

> > ps: I use slapd 2.2.26 on a ubuntu 6.10-machine
>
> You're almost 2 years out of date. Current stable release is 2.3.32. 
> There are good reasons to upgrade, including the ability to configure 
> things at runtime (without server restarts) and have index changes 
> generated automatically.

I told the newest ubuntu to install ldap and thats what I got. Seems I got 
something old ... As soon as everything works here I'll upgrade and run into 
loads of upgrade-troubles ;)

thnx
peter


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