On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Brian Reichert <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 04:31:42PM +0200, Prashanth P.Nair wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Brian Reichert <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:48:56PM +0200, Prashanth P.Nair wrote: > > > > Thanks Brian > > > > > > > > Yes.i have back up script which runs as root. But it stores the back > file > > > > in different location . > > > > > > That script looks safe, but you didn't answer my other question: > > > > > > > > Does that node run any of the db_checkpoint utilities as a user > > > > > other than your openldap UID? > > > > > > Thanks Brian. > > > > Could you please let me know how that can be checked? > > I have no way of knowing what sort of administrative tooling you > may have on your systems. > > In my specific case, I was running a CentOS 5-based system. This > distribution had a version of OpenLDAP that was compiled against a > private copy of the Berkeley database library. > > I had a home-rolled backup cronjob that ran these utilities: > > /usr/sbin/slapd_db_checkpoint > /usr/sbin/slapd_db_archive > > but did so as 'root', not as slapd's UID. Once in a great while, > this would result in a transaction log owned by root, and slapd > would fail. > I dont find any db utilites running.. Am running ldap on debian machine . and i have below db utilities.But its not running at all. +++-=======================-================-================-==================================================== ii db4.8-util 4.8.30-2 amd64 Berkeley v4.8 Database Utilities -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8088 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_archive -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9896 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_checkpoint -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10136 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_deadlock -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12376 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_dump -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17200 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_hotbackup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23432 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_load -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67440 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_printlog -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9928 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_recover -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119224 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_sql -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10944 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_stat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8760 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_upgrade -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9240 Aug 30 2010 /usr/bin/db4.8_verify > > -- > Brian Reichert <[email protected]> > BSD admin/developer at large >
