Re: Running ldif2ldbm while slapd is still running - possible ?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 11:52 AM 6/10/00 +0200, Jochen Tuchbreiter wrote:
>My Idea ist to simlpy run ldif2lbm in the background while slapd is still
>running. Of course ldif2lbm would have to create the database in a different
>directory and slapd would have to run in read-only mode during this time.
>After ldif2ldbm is done I am planning on simply copying the new db-dir to
>the old one, overwriting the db-files.
>
>Is this possible / do you consider this to be "safe" ?

No.  You have to bring slapd down, swap in the new DB, and restart
slapd.