On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:10:40PM +1000, David Kempe wrote: > Alexander Samad wrote: > > >the permissions look okay, strange it gets some way through and then > >stops! > > > > I had a similar thing today with an RPM database on redhat EL3 - I think > it uses sleepycat DB4 type files as well. rpm -qa and stuff would just > stop half way through. > anyway, there was some lock files that needed removing ___db4* I think. > maybe you have some of them? there might also be some sleepycat db > repairing type tools you can use - rpm comes with a bunch of them.
thank you thank you removed the files and it all started to work again > > whats the best/recommended way to backup these ldap databases anyway? > dump to ldif every now and then? I would have thought copying the raw > files would be fine, but you always run the risk of getting caught in > the middle of a db write i spose. I am doing both, but I shut down the ldap db and then copy the files, I now also slapcat -l as well but with versioning now > > dave >
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