[K12OSN] Slightly OT - Emergengy Linux/LDAP setup

[Brian Chivers]

Huck wrote:
> Lucky you! That's exactly how I got K12LTSP's foot in the door here! ;)
> 
> After install be sure to do the 'yum update' and all should go well.
> 
> --Huck
> 
> Tom Allen wrote:
> 
>> Our Novell server crashed.  We are now accelerating our plans to setup
>> our linux/ldap server.  It is a DakTek server, and we are using the
>> k12ltsp 4.2.1 disks to do a "regular" server install.  Are there any
>> "gotcha's" to be aware of?  It should be a fairly straight forward
>> install.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Tom
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Also make sure you do regular slapcat -l 's to have a backup. It saved me this morning when our 
system corrupted the backend so I had to wipe the content's of /var/lib/ldap and then do a slapadd 
-l from the last backup, 5 minutes and wer were away again !!!

Also pay attention to the settings in slapd.conf, by default when I installed from the 
smbldap-installer script it didn't setup and cache & loglevel is default so that 256 so you'll get a 
big log quickly on a busy server.

We have over 1000 users and about 500 PC's and these are the setting's I've added to slapd.conf

loglevel 8
cachesize 2000
dbcachesize 20000

These are smaller then the ones set out on the MESD/K12Linux Quick Guide to LDAP guide but double 
the size of the one setout in the idealx howto.

Brian