[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#416273: slapd -Not starting if ldap logs exist

[Mgr. Peter Tuharsky]

  > This generally indicates a permission issue.  If, for example, you run
> slapd as root and then later try to run it as another user, or if you
> change what user you're running slapd as, you need to change the ownership
> of all of the files in /var/lib/ldap to match the user you're running
> slapd as.

It's strange, yes, some files are created by openldap user, while others 
are root's. However, I don't know, why should slapd have any problems 
with root's files. We run slapd by custom script (because of bug 
416272), that contains just /usr/bin/slapd, thus it should run as root, 
shouldn't? And we met the problems also when running slapd manually from 
root's console.

All in all, I'd expect, that problems with file permissions should the 
slapd report in meaningful way, not the "database is corrupted" one.

> Could you check and see if that's the problem that you're having?  (And
> was this also the source of the problem you reported in #416272, to which
> I just responded?)

I'll try, however this is a production system, it's quite hard to stop 
slapd. I'll try building other machine and moving the files there to 
see. Probably in next 2 weeks.

Sincerely
Peter