[email protected] wrote: > Full_Name: Felix > Version: 2.4.19 > OS: Linux/Gentoo > URL: > Submission from: (NULL) (78.142.131.97) > > > Using the new configuration scheme, I changed > /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={1}hdb.ldif of a running openldap > instance. When I tried to restart openldap it gaves me a Segmentation Fault > error. Even if I called the changes off, openldap refused to start > (furthermore > segfaulted). I needed to get a copy of the original configuration file from my > backup to successfully start openldap again. > I think it's somewhere ok to deny working with a hand-changed configuration, > but > I think we will need a friendly advise, no unfriendly Segementation Fault > error. > cn=config is an LDAP database. Like any other LDAP database, you are only supposed to use ldapadd/modify/delete to write to it while slapd is running. You would probably get segfaults if you hand-edited the data files in a back-bdb database too. And no, we will not add code to protect from such misuse.
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