Bug#377812: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#377812: slapd won't start at all

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:53 AM +0200 Eric Van Buggenhaut 
<ericvb at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:15:53AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:54:07PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>
>> > My guess would be you weren't supposed to be able to slapcat a mysql
>> > database in the first place.  I'd take the question to
>> > openldap-software at openldap.org and ask there.  The developer of
>> > back-sql  reads it quite avidly.
>>
>> I wonder why we are talking about slapcat. I don't think the maintainer
>> scripts will run slapcat for the sql backend. Apart from that, even if
>> the SQL backend is not really supported, we should not have regressions
>> like that for new releases :(
>
> Totally agree, slapcat isn't the point.

On 7/11/2006, you specifically asked why slapcat was failing, that's why 
the discussion about it has continued.

In any case, I assume the Debian upgrade script does the right thing as far 
as doing backups, i.e., it iterates over the entire slapd.conf file, 
looking for every occurrence of the "database" keyword, and then backs up 
each of those databases individually in their own LDIF file, and skips any 
unsupported database backends for backups.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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