[ILUG] restarting ldap - getting Permission denied

[Ken Guest]

I've had to try and restart ldap on a server in work (after rebuilding index files).
I chowned/chgrped the generated files for access by the ldap owner and group;
as a part of this prescribed process:

cd /var/db/
cp -R openldap-data openldap-data-bk-200600420
cd openldap-data
rm *
cp ../openldap-data-bk-200600420/id2entry.bdb .
slapindex
chown ldap.ldap /var/db/openldap-data/*


Starting the slapd service gets the following dumped into the log file:

Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20819]: bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002)
Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20819]: bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database
Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20820]: bdb(dc=XXXXX,dc=YYY,dc=ZZZ): /var/db/openldap-data/__db.001: Permission denied
Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20820]: bdb_db_open: dbenv_open failed: Permission denied (13)
Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20820]: backend_startup: bi_db_open(0) failed! (13)
Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20820]: bdb(dc=XXXXX,dc=YYY,dc=ZZZ): txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the transaction subsystem
Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20820]: bdb_db_destroy: txn_checkpoint failed: Invalid argument (22)
Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20820]: slapd stopped.
Apr 20 11:44:25 XXXXX slapd[20820]: connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.

(some details are masked out)

what must I do to get the ldap server up and running again?

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Ken Guest
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