Openldap update problem

[Ryan Golhar]

The backups I keep simply copy once a night to a failover machine.  

When the new RPMs were installed, the backup, backed up the empty
database...

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Ryan Golhar
Computational Biologist
The Informatics Institute at
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

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-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin J. Weiss [mailto:benjamin at weiss.name] 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:24 PM
To: golharam at umdnj.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Openldap update problem


On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:

> This morning, I came in to work and was told no one could log on to 
> any of the linux machines.  After some digging, I checked the LDAP 
> directory and found out it was totally empty -- it was overwritten.
> 
> I was able to recreate it based on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but 
> then proceeded to find out why.  I found out that last night, new ldap

> rpms were installed by up2date:
> 
<snip>
> 
> I've now marked ldap to be skipped in updates, but am curious if this 
> is normal behaviour.
> 
> Thank god I keep everything in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow just in 
> case.

Don't you keep backups?  It would probably have been easier to just 
restore the file that got over-written, wouldn't it?

Ben