automatically re-start LDAP in case of crash

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress at lios-tech.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> it seems that I'm also affected by the LDAP crash of issue #2982 [1].
> As I use slapd for both Kolab and Samba/Posix log-ons, a crash of it
> will leave the whole system unusable.  I also assume that no mails will
> be delivered anymore, as no users can be checked, and they will
> therefore bounce, right?
>
> While this is probably not a Kolab issue, I wonder how I can
> automatically re-start slapd /immediately/ when it segfaults.  In
> particular, there is a remark in the issue that the data base had
> "crashed", too, and that db_recover had to be used (how?).  As OpenLDAP
> is a very critical core component of Kolab, IMO it would be a valuable
> add-on to have such a watch-and-restart-if-necessary feature.

I guess you could install monit for the task. I think it was part of  
the Kolab server in former times. At least there is an entry in CVS  
for it. I don't know why it was dropped though.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Thanks, Albrecht.
>
> [1] <https://www.intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue2982>
>
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