Raphaël Ouazana-Sustowski wrote: > On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:36:22 +0100, Michael Ströder wrote: >> Raphaël Ouazana-Sustowski wrote: >>> Wouldn't it be possible to have a more generic solution, eg: while each >>> configuration change, OpenLDAP tests that configuration is still valid. >> >> While checking the configuration data itself seems feasible it does >> not scale well to check all entries whether they still contain a >> certain schema element. > > Again I was talking about a more generic case.
??? > For the specific case of schema modification, I don't think that OpenLDAP > doesn't start if some entries are missing some schema elements. Schema and all entries have to be consistent. Periodically checking with slapschema whether everything's still alright is a good idea. > My point is only that OpenLDAP should not bring the administrator to > a situation where he cannot restart the service. Nothing prevents an admin to do rm -rf /var/openldap/databases so to some degree an admin has to know what he does. Ciao, Michael.
