automatically re-start LDAP in case of crash

[Albrecht Dreß]

Hi Gunnar:

Am 21.10.2008 11:52:01 schrieb(en) Gunnar Wrobel:
> 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.

Thanks for that hint!

Maybe I'll write my own script to do that, as Monit looks somewhat  
"heavy" for that task.  Something like: open a socket connection to  
slapd, if it breaks try to re-connect, if that times out, run openpkg  
to stop OpenLDAP, issue a db_restore (just to be safe), and again use  
openpkg to launch OpenLDAP again.  A simple perl script should be  
sufficient.  What do you think, is that approach correct?

A fix for OpenLDAP would of course be the preferred solution - again  
had a crash with the same symptoms tonight.  Do you know how I could  
get more debugging info out of slapd to track the issue?

Thanks, Albrecht.