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.