In case anyone is interested I've wrote some notes on the Northgrid
blog. I have also upgraded to the latest BDII since we had an old
version that still was using a common repo for all the BDIIs.
http://northgrid-tech.blogspot.com/2011/05/bdii-follow-up.html
cheers
alessandra
On 03/05/2011 23:25, Alessandra Forti wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I knew about it from lcg-rollout but
> Laurence didn't seem sure it would help and then I forgot all about it.
>
> Crossing fingers it will work.
>
> cheers
> alessandra
>
> On 03/05/2011 11:26, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just to nail down exactly what we've done with openldap on the
>> Oxford site BDII - we have the attached yum repo file on the BDII
>> which points to a repo that contains the newer openldap, and
>> some other stuff. Our repo file restricts yum to only installing
>> openldap24 and nothing else from there.
>>
>> We then install the openldap24 and openldap24-servers packages
>> which install in parallel to the standard system packages, rather
>> than upgrading them.
>>
>> You then need to add the lines:
>>
>> # Tweak to use SA-1 openldap24
>> SLAPD=/opt/openldap2.4/sbin/slapd
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/openldap2.4/lib64
>>
>> to the end of the file '/opt/bdii/etc/bdii.conf' to actually make
>> it use the new ldap. Then restart things to pick up the changes.
>>
>> Before we did this we'd have the ldap server freeze (but not die)
>> completely multiple times a day, since doing this it's been fine.
>> This all dates back a bit, there may be a better way of doing it
>> now.
>>
>> Ewan
>>
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