automatically re-start LDAP in case of crash

[Gunnar Wrobel]

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

> 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?

Yes, should be okay.

>
> 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?

You can increase the log level in  
/kolab/etc/kolab/templates/slapd.conf.template. But I never really  
liked the LDAP logs. They tend to get quite bloated if you do not know  
exactly what you are searching for and include a lot of detail in the  
logs.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Thanks, Albrecht.
>
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