[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#436954: slapd: wishlist item: re-index at startup

[Andreas John]

Package: slapd
Version: 2.3.30-5, probably all newer ones.
severity: wishlist

Hello,
as slapd fails from time to time in maintaining it's indexes correctly,
I would like to see a config option in /etc/default/slapd, to make it
re-index at startup time. The behavior should be configurable in
/etc/default/slapd.

Two patches attached.

rgds,
Andreas



--- /etc/default/slapd.orig     2007-08-09 18:44:35.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/default/slapd  2007-08-09 19:01:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 # run in the primary group of its user.
 SLAPD_GROUP="openldap"

+# Set this to true, if you want the indexes to be reindexed at startup
+# Needs sudo to be installed. (apt-get install sudo or such)
+SLAPINDEX_ON_START=
+
 # Path to the pid file of the slapd server. If not set the init.d script
 # will try to figure it out from $SLAPD_CONF (/etc/ldap/slapd.conf)
 SLAPD_PIDFILE=


--- /etc/init.d/slapd.orig      2007-08-09 18:25:32.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/init.d/slapd   2007-08-09 19:18:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -128,6 +128,16 @@
 # Start the slapd daemon and capture the error message if any to
 # $reason.
 start_slapd() {
+       # (re-)creates indexes, if configured so in /etc/default/slapd
+       # indexes in slapd a known to misbehave from time to time. -aj
+       if [ ! -z "${SLAPINDEX_ON_START}" ]; then
+               if [ -z "$SLAPD_USER" ]; then
+                       /usr/sbin/slapindex
+               else
+                       [ -f "/usr/sbin/slapd" ] && sudo -u
"$SLAPD_USER" /usr/sbin/slapindex
+               fi
+       fi
+
        echo -n " slapd"
        if [ -z "$SLAPD_SERVICES" ]; then
                reason="`start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo \