Re: Automatically restarting Syncrepl on a consumer if the Provider restarts.

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

James Saint-Rossy, Thomas wrote:

> I've been over the docs and newsgroups and can't find anything to help 
> me on this one.
>
> I'm using Syncrepl in "refreshAndPersist" mode and when I restart the 
> provider all of the consumers loose synchronization until I restart 
> them.  I understand that this is occurring because the provider losses 
> the persistent query that the consumer initially sent.  I tried 
> setting the timeout and interval on the consumer but it never tires to 
> resend the query to the provider.  Is there a way I can get it to 
> resend the connection on a regular basis?  I understand that 
> refreshOnly would achieve this but I need fast synchronization.  
> Having the consumer detect this situation and resending the query 
> would  save me from having to restart all the consumers every time I 
> restart the provider.
>
> Here's the log entry that I see on the consumer:
> "do_syncrep2 : Can't contact LDAP server"

In HEAD/RE22 there's an (undocumented yet) "retry" directive that should 
help you.  I don't know the details, but you may try to read from the 
code in servers/slapd/config.c

p.





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