[K12OSN] Power outage - ldap stopped working

David Trask dtrask at vcsvikings.org
Mon Sep 19 14:57:48 UTC 2005


Tom...append this to what I already posted....forgot the deleting of files
in /var/lib/ldap and the "chown -R ldap:ldap /var/lib/ldap" at the end.

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Mon Sep 19 2005 at 10:31 +0000 wrote:
>If you have your backend set as dbm your OK if it's ldbm you might have
>an issue and this is what 
>the smbldap-installer sets up.
>
>When was the last time you ran a slapcat -l filename ?
   I did that for you last week
>
>
>We had a issue like this the other day where the ldap backend was
>corrupted. What I did was to stop 
>LDAP, move the files out of /var/lib/ldap (I think that was the location
>it's set in slapd.conf
>
>Once the files were moved out I did a slapadd -l filename this recovered
>the backup. I then had to 
>chown -R ldap:ldap /var/lib/ldap



David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100




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