On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:41:27AM -0800, Ivan Ordonez wrote:
I have run "slapcat -l export.ldif" many times without stopping the ldap service and it seems fine, and worked perfectly. Was there any reason why the service need to be stop while running slapcat? Just curious.
It depends on which version of OpenLDAP you have. Recent versions permit slapcat while running, but in early versions this can cause major problems. Without knowing the exact version the safest advice is to stop the server first.
Andrew