Le Thursday 22 November 2007 17:53:08 Cyrille Bollu, vous avez écrit : > Hi all, > > is there something to do to prevent "tar" to lookup for username when it's > estimating the size of the DLE's (like when you do "ls -ln" instead of "ls > -l")? > > It seems that this process puts a very high load on my LDAP server... Such > a high load that I'm planing to install a new LDAP slave only for the > backup > > Any clue? >
Could be... But the problem is, it won't be synchronized in real time AND it requires that you have shadow passwords! You could put in a cron, at regular enough intervals, these two commands: getent passwd >/etc/passwd getent group >/etc/group But of course DO A BACKUP OF /etc/passwd FIRST. This based on the premise that you use nsswitch.conf and that your passwd and group entries read both "files ldap". However, the fact that it puts a high load on the LDAP server means one of two things (sorry,veering off topic here): 1. you have a s*load of files; 2. your LDAP database is not indexed correctly. You should try and investigate on the LDAP front as well. -- Francis Galiegue, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Ingénieur système [ATTENTION : CHANGEMENT DE COORDONNÉES !] One2team - 42 Av. Raymond Poincaré - 75116 PARIS CEDEX +33683877875, +33178945552
