Argh. Fustrating isn't it? I wish this was in the LDAP documentation on RedHat's site. I would have put LDAP in the skipList a long time ago... ----- 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: Nathaniel Hall [mailto:halln@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:27 PM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Openldap update problem We came in to the same problem this morning. What we ended up doing was restoring from a backed up ldif file. Once we had it partially working, another fix came out and broke it again. Nathaniel Hall Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking halln@xxxxxxx 417-799-0552 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: > >[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
