[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#673038: Bug#673038: Bug#673038: slapd: slapcat output truncated every now and then

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:25 PM +0200 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> 
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Steve Langasek wrote:
>> > According to the slapcat man page it should be "always safe to run
>> > slapcat with the slapd-bdb(5) ... backends" even if slapd runs. We do
>> > use a BDB backend.
>>
>> Note that the HDB backend is the one recommended upstream and the Debian
>> default.
>
> Well, yeah, that system has been dist-upgraded from at least Etch.
> IIRC it started at some time when BDB was still the default.
>
> I wrote that -- according to our backups -- this happened already with
> Lenny's slapd. But with Lenny it seemed to have happened less often
> (which is why we noticed it only recently).

Personally, I would advise you to ask a question about this on 
openldap-technical at openldap.org.  I asked Howard about it, and he had a 
ready answer as to why you were seeing this, but I forget what it is.  In 
any case, this is not a debian specific openldap bug.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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