This morning, I came in to work and was told no one could log on to any of the linux machines. After some digging, I checked the LDAP directory and found out it was totally empty -- it was overwritten. I was able to recreate it based on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but then proceeded to find out why. I found out that last night, new ldap rpms were installed by up2date: [Thu Sep 2 00:32:14 2004] up2date installing packages: ['nss_ldap-207-11', 'openldap-2.0.27-15', 'openldap-clients-2.0.27-15', 'openldap-servers-2.0.27-15'] [Thu Sep 2 00:32:27 2004] up2date Removing packages from package profile: ['nss_ldap-207-10', 'openldap-2.0.27-11', 'openldap-clients-2.0.27-11', 'openldap-servers-2.0.27-11'] [Thu Sep 2 00:32:28 2004] up2date Adding packages to package profile: ['nss_ldap-207-11', 'openldap-2.0.27-15', 'openldap-clients-2.0.27-15', 'openldap-servers-2.0.27-15'] [Thu Sep 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting /var/spool/up2date/nss_ldap-207-11.i386.rpm [Thu Sep 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting /var/spool/up2date/nss_ldap-207-11.i386.hdr [Thu Sep 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting /var/spool/up2date/openldap-2.0.27-15.i386.rpm [Thu Sep 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting /var/spool/up2date/openldap-2.0.27-15.i386.hdr [Thu Sep 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting /var/spool/up2date/openldap-clients-2.0.27-15.i386.hdr [Thu Sep 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting /var/spool/up2date/openldap-clients-2.0.27-15.i386.rpm [Thu Sep 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting /var/spool/up2date/openldap-servers-2.0.27-15.i386.hdr [Thu Sep 2 00:32:29 2004] up2date deleting /var/spool/up2date/openldap-servers-2.0.27-15.i386.rpm I've now marked ldap to be skipped in updates, but am curious if this is normal behaviour. Thank god I keep everything in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow just in case. ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
