Openldap update problem

[Ryan Golhar]

Actually, yes.  Updates seem to come out quite often and I don't have
time to review them.  Most of the time, it doesn't matter. 

Only in situtations like this, which is just a few packages I'll skip
over and handle manually.

Ryan


-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd H. Meinholz [mailto:lloyd.meinholz at bmpcoe.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:42 PM
To: golharam at umdnj.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Openldap update problem


Installing updates automatically seems like bad practice to me. Do you
have so many machines that reviewing the updates before installing them
is impractical? Just my opinion...

Lloyd


On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:14, 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:
> 
> [Thu Sep  2 00:32:14 2004] up2date installing packages: 
> ['nss_ldap-207-11', 'openldap-2.0.27-15', 
> 'openldap-clients-2.0.27-15', 'openldap-servers-2.0.27-15'] [Thu Sep  
> 2 00:32:27 2004] up2date Removing packages from package
> profile: ['nss_ldap-207-10', 'openldap-2.0.27-11', 
> 'openldap-clients-2.0.27-11', 'openldap-servers-2.0.27-11'] [Thu Sep  
> 2 00:32:28 2004] up2date Adding packages to package profile: 
> ['nss_ldap-207-11', 'openldap-2.0.27-15', 
> 'openldap-clients-2.0.27-15', 'openldap-servers-2.0.27-15'] [Thu Sep  
> 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting 
> /var/spool/up2date/nss_ldap-207-11.i386.rpm
> [Thu Sep  2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting 
> /var/spool/up2date/nss_ldap-207-11.i386.hdr
> [Thu Sep  2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting 
> /var/spool/up2date/openldap-2.0.27-15.i386.rpm
> [Thu Sep  2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting 
> /var/spool/up2date/openldap-2.0.27-15.i386.hdr
> [Thu Sep  2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting 
> /var/spool/up2date/openldap-clients-2.0.27-15.i386.hdr
> [Thu Sep  2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting 
> /var/spool/up2date/openldap-clients-2.0.27-15.i386.rpm
> [Thu Sep  2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting 
> /var/spool/up2date/openldap-servers-2.0.27-15.i386.hdr
> [Thu Sep  2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting 
> /var/spool/up2date/openldap-servers-2.0.27-15.i386.rpm
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> -----
> Ryan Golhar
> Computational Biologist
> The Informatics Institute at
> The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ
> 
> Phone: 973-972-5034
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> Email: golharam at umdnj.edu
>