On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 04:31:42PM +0200, Prashanth P.Nair wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Brian Reichert reichert@numachi.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:48:56PM +0200, Prashanth P.Nair wrote:
Thanks Brian
Yes.i have back up script which runs as root. But it stores the back file in different location .
That script looks safe, but you didn't answer my other question:
Does that node run any of the db_checkpoint utilities as a user other than your openldap UID?
Thanks Brian.
Could you please let me know how that can be checked?
I have no way of knowing what sort of administrative tooling you may have on your systems.
In my specific case, I was running a CentOS 5-based system. This distribution had a version of OpenLDAP that was compiled against a private copy of the Berkeley database library.
I had a home-rolled backup cronjob that ran these utilities:
/usr/sbin/slapd_db_checkpoint /usr/sbin/slapd_db_archive
but did so as 'root', not as slapd's UID. Once in a great while, this would result in a transaction log owned by root, and slapd would fail.