Reinitializing the directory database does the trick!  I'm going to do more testing on it.

Thanks a lot!

- David

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org> wrote:
On 5/14/2010 11:40 AM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
>
> We use 389 Directory as part of our development lab.  Every time when
> we do a new test, we need to repopulate our 389 directory to a clean
> slate (i.e. delete all existing data and re-create a base hierarchy
> tree).
>
> Our current way of doing so is simply using the ldapdelete command to
> remove all existing data and use ldapadd to re-create the base
> hierarchy tree.  This approach is okay but sometime it could take up
> to 20 to 30 minutes to delete all existing data depending on the
> amount of data saved in the directory.
>
> Is there a more efficient way to repopulate the 389 Directory?

Yes. Import an almost empty LDIF file. You can also copy the on-disk
database underneath a server (when it is shut down), if you know what
you're doing.

--
389 users mailing list
389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users