SUMMARY: iPlanet Directory Services and vlvindex ???

Thank's. I've moved things around so the destination dir is always empty
!

This email summerize the whole situation:

> Subject: Re: iPlanet Directory Services and vlvindex ???
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 04:42:59 -0400
> From:  Dan Lowe <dan@tangledhelix.com>
> To:  Simon-Bernard Drolet <simon@learnix.com>
> 
> I've run into a similar problem, although it was dealing with the cache
> directory being on its own partition.
> 
> Basically, it seems like iPlanet's products have some sort of bug (or as
> they would claim, and undocumented feature ;-) which causes trouble when
> you put something like this on the root of a mount point.
> 
> I'd be willing to bet that if you created a subdirectory in the mount-point
> (i.e. /var/opt/iPlanet/ids/db/db) instead, it would work fine.   In other
> words, make some bogus directory for it to use so that it's not actually
> using the root directory of the mountpoint).
> 
> However, I have had systems that log this "no permission to file write"
> error and still appeared to function properly.  I did the subdirectory
> thing to shut them up anyway; this kind of spurious warning made me
> nervous.
> 
> iPlanet's support department refused to admit this as a bug report and
> simply closed out my case and let it vanish, so I wouldn't count on them
> giving you any useful information about it if you choose to contact them
> about it.
> 
> HTH,
>  -dan


Simon-Bernard Drolet wrote:
> 
> Hi group,
> 
> I'm playing with LDAP this week. I've installed iPlanet Directory
> Services version 4.13.
> 
> I've bought the Blueprints called "SOLARIS and LDAP Naming Services,
> Deploying LDAP in the Enterprise".
> 
> Now, the situation:
> 
> I've followed the 12 steps to configure iDS for Native LDAP for Solaris
> 8. At one point, well, step 12, I need to create the index databases:
> 
> root@sxi-s58# cd /opt/iPlanet/slapd-sxi-s58/
> /opt/iPlanet/slapd-sxi-s58
> root@sxi-s58# ./vlvindex getpwent
> [23/May/2001:20:34:29 -0400] - WARNING---no /var/opt/iPlanet/ids/db
> permission to file write
> OKroot@sxi-s58#
> 
> The reason, after multiple run at trussing the process, it's down to
> having a directory called "lost+found" in the database log directory.
> (I've followed the performance section, they recommend to put these on a
> different FS, so there is a lost+found !)
> 
> Now, if I remove lost+found:
> 
> root@sxi-s58# rmdir /var/opt/iPlanet/ids/db/lost+found/
> root@sxi-s58# ./vlvindex getpwent
> OKroot@sxi-s58#
> 
> It's working !@^&!#@$&#
> 
> Anyone has some info on this ? We need to put the databases and the
> index in a different FS, so the lost+found dir will be there !!!
> 
> Thank's.
-- 
Simon-Bernard Drolet, Specialiste X inc., 514-247-6741.
TMI - Learnix, mailto:Simon@Learnix.com, mailto:SXi@Sympatico.ca
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