Re: Disk full, 15GB of logfiles containing timestamps

Am Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:47:01 +0100 schrieb Dan Hawkes dan.hawkes@fissara.com:

We've encountered a issue where openldap seems to be writing huge volumes of logs for authentication failures.

Having freed up some space and run `db_recover` (which cleared out the log files), then restarted openldap, it's again written ~120MB of logs for 200 failed authentication requests.

The log files are almost entirely timestamps:

[...]

OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.40

Any ideas why this is happening?

Yes, db is badly configured, 'set_flags DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE' should do the trick. But prior to that, run db_archive -dvh /path/to/dabatase to remove old files. By the way, BerkleyDB is depricated, you should switch to mdb.

-Dieter