On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 21:27, <masar...@aero.polimi.it> wrote: > > Yes, indeed this is our case. I had to manually slapindex, then only we > > got > > the correct result (even though we have specified the attribute to index > > automatically in slapd.conf). > > How do you specify automatic attribute indexing in slapd.conf? I didn't > know about that. >
We have this line in slapd.conf. index customAttribute pres,eq Is this not automatic indexing? Or is it just specifying which attribute to index when running slapindex? > > > However, do we have to slapindex nightly since this is a case, or is this > > a > > bug (we're using openldap 2.4.19)? > > Apparently, you ran slapindex without even reading the man page. It > *must* be run when you change indexes in slapd.conf, and only in that > case. And slapd *must not* be running when you run slapindex (it > complains and refuses to start, otherwise, as far as I know). > > Or, if you modify indexes using ldapmodify in cn=config, re-indexing will > be automatical, no need to run slapindex. Is this what you meant? > I think so. That means, doing ldapmodify when ldap is running live will automatically re-index the attribute? > > p. > > Thanks for the help! Regards, Wan Mohd Khairi Wan Mohamed wankhairi [at] nervesis [dot] com [dot] my http://www.nervesis.com.my
