Re: Deleting all Data

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Sadik Kumlali wrote:

> /etc/init.d/ldap stop
>
>
> # /var/lib/ldap/example.com: 'directory' definition in 'slapd.conf' 
> # that gives the path of folder in which database files reside
> rm -rf /var/lib/ldap/example.com
>
> /etc/init.d/ldap start
>
> That's all!
>  
Not quite. That also deletes the directory itself, which will cause 
slapd to fail to startup. This example would be better as

 rm -rf /var/lib/ldap/example.com/*

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