Well found nothing In FAQ or the Admin guide

Found this old message in the ML http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200904/msg00005.html

Guess the way to do it is shutdown and delete the files

Alex

-----Original Message----- From: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Alex Samad - Yieldbroker Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2012 4:40 PM To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: how to delete backend DB

Hi

I am trying to delete a backend DB

Currently have dn: olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config dn: olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config dn: olcDatabase={1}monitor,cn=config dn: olcDatabase={2}bdb,cn=config

I would like to delete olcDatabase={2}bdb,cn=config

I tried

ldapdelete -v "olcDatabase={2}bdb,cn=config"

note- I have ~/.ldaprc setup with URI & SAS_MECH

slapd will not let me do it ? I know I can shut down slapd and remove the file. But I am wondering if there is a "proper" way to do it

Thanks Alex