Re: ContextCSN showing Junk Characters

[Clément OUDOT <clement.oudot@savoirfairelinux.com>]

Le 07/07/2016 19:38, Aaron Richton a écrit :
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, scn_73@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My ldapmaster ContextCSN showing Junk Characters. Please advice how 
> > can reset to valid one.
> >
> > contextCSN:: 0CKRuTQrAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
> >
> > CentOS 5.8
> > Openldap Version is OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.43
>
> Perhaps some unfortunate corruption bug, but seeing as OpenLDAP 2.3.43 
> was released 2008/07/16 there's a good chance you can get the 
> appropriate bug fix just by upgrading. Somebody else has probably 
> already contributed the hard work in the past eight years.
>
> So upgrade to the latest version of OpenLDAP from www.openldap.org, 
> and then any write to the database should write a fresh contextCSN...


If you are stuck in CentOS 5 and want to install a recent OpenLDAP with 
packages, take a look at http://ltb-project.org/wiki/download#openldap

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