Re: OpenLDAP log file ownership getting modified automatically.

Brian Reichert wrote:

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.

From my understanding those commands change DB environment. IMO this is asking for trouble and is also obsolete with back-mdb.

The recommended way to export your DB for backup is to use slapcat command-line tool.

Ciao, Michael.