On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 21:27, <masarati@aero.polimi.it> wrote:

> Yes, indeed this is our case. I had to manually slapindex, then only we
> got
> the correct result (even though we have specified the attribute to index
> automatically in slapd.conf).

How do you specify automatic attribute indexing in slapd.conf? I didn't
know about that.

We have this line in slapd.conf.

index customAttribute pres,eq

Is this not automatic indexing? Or is it just specifying which attribute to index when running slapindex?

> However, do we have to slapindex nightly since this is a case, or is this
> a
> bug (we're using openldap 2.4.19)?

Apparently, you ran slapindex without even reading the man page. It
*must* be run when you change indexes in slapd.conf, and only in that
case. And slapd *must not* be running when you run slapindex (it
complains and refuses to start, otherwise, as far as I know).

Or, if you modify indexes using ldapmodify in cn=config, re-indexing will
be automatical, no need to run slapindex. Is this what you meant?

I think so. That means, doing ldapmodify when ldap is running live will automatically re-index the attribute?

p.