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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 >