Re: cleaning HDB after an unclean shutdown

Benin Technologies wrote:

Hi,

I'm doing some tests on a perl backend, which causes sometimes my OpenLDAP to hang. I then kill the process, but when I try to restart openldap it won't, because of my HDB backend. I get the following message :

db_db_open: database "dc=mycompany": database already in use.

After rebooting the server, everything works fine.

Any way to "clean" the HDB backend manually, without having to reboot the server ?

Sounds like you're running on Windows, which takes a long time after a process dies for it to release its file locks. I don't know of any solution other than to wait for Windows to eventually notice the process is gone.

The smarter solution of course is to quit using such a braindead OS as a server platform.