On Sat, November 8, 2008 05:30, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
Hello,
It is quite likely that your database got corrupted somewhow, so depending on the database definition you may try to recover the data first. If you had defined 'database bdb' in slapd.conf you may try to recover the database with the BerkeleyDB tool db_recover, if you had defined database ldbm, you lost.
ok, I`m really glad, because it is indeed bdb. i`ll try that first now, although i`ll first have to wrangle suse 10.0 to get said tool. I didn`t set up the server, i just have to deal with it now, and my suse-fu is not the strongest ;-)
To add a database to a new OpenLDAp instance the proper way is to dump the old data to a file, using the tool slapcat(8) and slapadd(8) to the new instance. As you presumably have built OpenLDAP with a newer version of BerkeleyDB, just copying files is not appropriate.
ok, i`l try that, too. thank you very much for the hints, i hope it helps.
although i`m wondering, if the db got corrupted, shouldn`t ldap complain about it in the logs? as it is, after "rcldap start" the daemon is visible in ps -A, but is not responding. and in the logs it just says it is initialised, no complains or errors etc?
anyways, thank you very much!
Silvana
-Dieter
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