HELP: ldap comes to screeching halt

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:52 -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 08:10 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > oh and by the way...logging is your friend
> > 
> > loglevel -1 #setting in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
> > 
> > will flood your syslog if you haven't caught ldap stuff in syslog.conf
> > with something like...
> > local4.*                                                /var/log/slapd.log
> > 
> > but the logs will surely tell you what is going on
> 
>     Cool; for now, it's running- I suppose the fix worked.
> 
>     Now what was this about your slick little backup routine?  
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you're lucky to get your horse back

service ldap stop
slapcat -l /home/backup/ldap/slapdump.ldif
service ldap start

do this manually till you get it right
create a script to do this
set the script in cron to do this on a regular basis

Craig