Re: getting warning:var/lib/ldap/__db.004 is not owned by "ldap" and lda

Re: getting warning:var/lib/ldap/__db.004 is not owned by "ldap" and ldap wont start

To: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>, "openldap-technical@openldap.org" <openldap-technical@openldap.org>

Subject: Re: getting warning:var/lib/ldap/__db.004 is not owned by "ldap" and ldap wont start

From: wailok tam <wailoktam@yahoo.com>

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:49:17 +0000 (UTC)

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thanks. I sort this one out.

From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>
To: wailok tam <wailoktam@yahoo.com>; openldap-technical@openldap.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: getting warning:var/lib/ldap/__db.004 is not owned by "ldap" and ldap wont start

--On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:36 AM +0000 wailok tam

<wailoktam@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi, all, I get the warning given in the title and ldap stops even after
> reporting to start successfully.
>
>
> The error is fixed by doing a chown for the affected files. It was
> mysteriously changed to root.
> I change it back to ldap and it works again. However, I want to know what
> has caused this to happen.
> Anyone can help?

This often happens when someone has a cron job running via root. In any
case, slapd itself will not change the ownership of those files unless you
start it as root instead of your ldap user.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Server Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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