Re: Deleting database

[Richard Megginson <rmeggins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ville Silventoinen wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Richard Megginson wrote:
>
> > Ville Silventoinen wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Richard Megginson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ville Silventoinen wrote:
> > > > > I'm using Fedora DS 1.0.4. I've written an application that uses 
> > > > > Fedora DS and next I'm planning to write unit tests. I'm wondering 
> > > > > if there is a way to delete the whole userRoot database and create 
> > > > > it again? I searched the documentation and there seems to be a way 
> > > > > to create the database from command line, but no way to delete it, 
> > > > > except from the GUI?
> > > > Just delete the entry (e.g. delete cn=userRoot,cn=ldbm 
> > > > database,cn=plugins,cn=config).  You will have to do some sort of 
> > > > recursive deletion to remove all of the child entries.  I think 
> > > > this is what the GUI does - just check the access logs for the 
> > > > server after deleting the database in the console.
> > >
> > > Thank you Richard, that worked very well. I also delete the mapping 
> > > tree entry, which maps the suffix to the backend database:
> > >
> > >   dn: cn="dc=ebi,dc=ac,dc=uk",cn=mapping tree,cn=config
> > >   objectclass: top
> > >   objectclass: extensibleObject
> > >   objectclass: nsMappingTree
> > >   nsslapd-state: backend
> > >   nsslapd-backend: userRoot
> > >   cn: dc=ebi,dc=ac,dc=uk
> > >
> > > The GUI works slightly differently, it sets nsslapd-state to 
> > > "disabled" and removes the nsslapd-backend attribute.
> > >
> > > If anyone has a need for a script that can delete and create a 
> > > database, I can send it to the list. I use Python with python-ldap 
> > > package.
> > >
> > > Thank you very much for a fast response!
> > If you just want to restore the database to it's initial state, you 
> > can just do an import - ldif2db or ldif2db.pl - this will remove the 
> > previous contents and create a new database.  This might be 
> > sufficient for your purposes, without having to delete the database 
> > and mapping tree entries.  See ldif2db.pl for how to invoke an import 
> > operation via ldap
>
> This may be a stupid question but how do I get ldif2db.pl to remove 
> the previous contents so it can create the entries?
>
> I tried like this:
>
>   ./ldif2db.pl -v -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w mypassword -n userRoot 
> -i /path/to/userRoot.ldif
>
> but in the errors log it shows for every entry "WARNING: Skipping 
> duplicate entry".
That usually means there are duplicate entries in your userRoot.ldif 
file - can you post it somewhere and post the link to it here?  I'd 
rather not spam the list with a large ldif file.
> Thanks for the Python example!
>
> Ville
>
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