Openldap update problem
Benjamin J. Weiss
benjamin at Weiss.name
Thu Sep 2 20:32:11 UTC 2004
Hm..I know that there's been several threads on this list about how to
manage a multi-day backup scheme, and it's covered *very* well in an
O'Reilly Book "Unix Backup". Well worth the read.
Ben
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> The backups I keep simply copy once a night to a failover machine.
>
> When the new RPMs were installed, the backup, backed up the empty
> database...
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin J. Weiss [mailto:benjamin at weiss.name]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:24 PM
> To: golharam at umdnj.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Openldap update problem
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote:
>
> > This morning, I came in to work and was told no one could log on to
> > any of the linux machines. After some digging, I checked the LDAP
> > directory and found out it was totally empty -- it was overwritten.
> >
> > I was able to recreate it based on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but
> > then proceeded to find out why. I found out that last night, new ldap
>
> > rpms were installed by up2date:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > I've now marked ldap to be skipped in updates, but am curious if this
> > is normal behaviour.
> >
> > Thank god I keep everything in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow just in
> > case.
>
> Don't you keep backups? It would probably have been easier to just
> restore the file that got over-written, wouldn't it?
>
> Ben
>
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