Thanks for the reply, Howard.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. From what I have read there are two options.
1) Copy /usr/share/openldap-servers/DB_CONFIG.example to /var/lib/domain then rebuild the database. 2) Enable checkpointing in slapd.conf
Does enabling checkpointing in slapd.conf require rebuilding the database or can I simply restart slapd.conf? We are not using online configuration.
Best Doug
Thanks,
Douglas Duckworth, MSc, LFCS HPC System Administrator Scientific Computing Unit Physiology and Biophysics Weill Cornell Medicine E: doug@med.cornell.edu O: 212-746-6305 F: 212-746-8690
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:
Douglas Duckworth wrote:
Hi
I am running openldap-servers-2.4.40-16.el6.x86_64 cluster on Centos
6.9. My
/var/lib/ldap directory contains many 10MB log files. /var partition
rather
small...
I've read they can be removed either by running "sudo db_archive -d -h /var/lib/ldap/domain" or by defining "DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE" within the file "DB_CONFIG." That file does not presently exist whereas the db_archive command does not actually remove any of the log files.
If the db_archive command doesn't remove anything, that means it thinks all of the log files are still in active use.
Read the docs more carefully. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__docs. oracle.com_cd_E17076-5F05_html_programmer-5Freference_ transapp-5Flogfile.html&d=DwICaQ&c=lb62iw4YL4RFalcE2hQUQealT9- RXrryqt9KZX2qu2s&r=2Fzhh_78OGspKQpl_e-CbhH6xUjnRkaqPFUS2wTJ2cw&m= WP95x8mwSiEHHqUWRqJv6WdpfcTtJDAUAKN756yEEDA&s= Kfi27b4v7vABZjPQYMkeo4xBqUyDGZeyB8pHAFin8xY&e=
Can I remove the old log files manually using rm?
Not if the above is true, you will corrupt the logs and the DB will fail to open on a subsequent restart.
If not should I create /var/lib/ldap/DB_CONFIG then restart slapd to make this removal
automatic?
Do you have any idea why db_archive does not work or produce any helpful
error
to stdout?
There's no error message because there's no error, everything is working as designed.
You need to do periodic checkpoints to allow log files to be closed, and then db_archive will be able to remove some of them.
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