[rhelv6-list] LDAPD dies after update

[Götz Reinicke]

Am 01.09.11 15:08, schrieb Prentice Bisbal:
> On 09/01/2011 08:36 AM, Götz Reinicke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> recently I updated our ldapd on our RH EL 6.1 to the most recent version
>> openldap-2.4.23-15.el6_1.1.x86_64 (from 2.4.19-15)
>>
>> Since than the deamon died twice in the middle of the night, leaving no
>> traces to me why.
>>
>> The 2.4.19-15-version never died ...
>>
> 
> I can't offer any advice as to why it died, but if you haven't done so,
> I recommend creating a 'watchdog' script that checks to make sure
> 'slapd' is running, and if it isn't, restart it. Run it from cron every
> couple of minutes and have it e-mail you every time it needs to restart
> slapd.
> 
> This will protect your sanity and avoid phone calls in the middle of the
> night, as well as automatically collect statistics on how often and when
> it's dying, which may help your correlate it to another event occuring
> at the same time which is the root cause. If your watchdog script runs
> frequently enough, users might not even notice it's down.

Thanks for your suggestion, may be you could give me a hint on how to
set this up? In the example config, there is a check for an existing
.pid-file.

That would not work in my case, as the pid file is still there, but the
slapd-process died.

	Regards

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