[rhelv6-list] LDAPD dies after update - found 'watchdog' Script

[Götz Reinicke]

Am 01.09.11 15:40, schrieb 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.


Thx, I foud a watchdog-Script which works for me.

	regards. Götz


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