John Oliver wrote: > Since I figured I was pretty well screwed anyway, I deleted > /etc/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2 and re-ran setup-ds-admin.pl To my > amazement, it was able to complete successfully! It went all the way > through, create an adm.conf and other files, etc. I was able to log in > to the web admin screen. > > So, I ran /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/bak2db to restore the > database I'd copied over. Unfortunately (for your case), when you do bak2db, it copies all of the databases - your user/group database (userRoot), and the console information database (NetscapeRoot). So if you restore it on your new instance . . . > That looked very promising, but there were > two points where it said it was deleting an attribute of unix-services2 > and then adding one for unix-services, which is the other, live machine. > After that, clicking on Fedora Administration Express gave me an error. > . . . you wipe out the new information you just created with setup-ds-admin.pl > I just went back to copy-and-paste it, but now I get an Internal Server > Error, and /var/log/httpd is empty. > /var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv - but it doesn't matter, because the restore from the other backup probably wiped out the information needed by the console. > Since I seemed to make some progress, I stopped dirsrv, deleted > /etc/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2 and /var/*/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2, and /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2, and /usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2, and /var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv, and all files in /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv except for admserv.conf, httpd.conf, console.conf, and nss.conf > and re-ran setup-ds-admin.pl When it > was done, I could get in to the admin interface again, only now it shows > me slapd-unix-services and slapd-unix-services2 So, I'm not sure if > that's progress or not. > > I want to wind up with a working backup of slapd-unix-services so if > that machine takes a crap, I can just bring up an interface with it's IP > address on slapd-unix-services2 and keep LDAP authentication working > while I puzzle out what went wrong on the first server. > Replication? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3258 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20080710/15f5264e/attachment.bin
