The backups I keep simply copy once a night to a failover machine. When the new RPMs were installed, the backup, backed up the empty database... ----- 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 -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin J. Weiss [mailto:benjamin@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:24 PM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Openldap update problem On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ryan Golhar wrote: > 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: > <snip> > > 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. Don't you keep backups? It would probably have been easier to just restore the file that got over-written, wouldn't it? Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list