We''ve just had a huge scare. We reboot our main LDAP server (CentOS DS 8.1 on newly upgraded CentOS 5.4) and it dirsrv failed to start. dse.ldif was completely empty. Thankfully, I had a near-line backup. I restored it and restarted and we seem to be OK. What would cause such a problem? Thanks - John -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular society
John A. Sullivan III wrote:> We''ve just had a huge scare. We reboot our main LDAP server (CentOS DS > 8.1 on newly upgraded CentOS 5.4) and it dirsrv failed to start. > dse.ldif was completely empty. Thankfully, I had a near-line backup. I > restored it and restarted and we seem to be OK. What would cause such a > problem? Thanks - John >Anything in the errors log? Anything in the syslog?
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 08:49 -0600, Rich Megginson wrote:> John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > We''ve just had a huge scare. We reboot our main LDAP server (CentOS DS > > 8.1 on newly upgraded CentOS 5.4) and it dirsrv failed to start. > > dse.ldif was completely empty. Thankfully, I had a near-line backup. I > > restored it and restarted and we seem to be OK. What would cause such a > > problem? Thanks - John > > > Anything in the errors log? Anything in the syslog?<snip> Very little. It has a complaint that it was not shutdown cleanly. I suppose it is possible the guest hung on the way down and the VM host killed it rudely when the host itself needed to reboot. Thanks - John -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular society