Re: [389-users] Enabling replication with changelog max age

[Rich Megginson]

On 03/27/2012 08:06 AM, Reinhard Nappert wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  I have a couple of question regarding the nsslapd-changelogmaxage 
>  attribute:
>  This attribute sets the maximum age that entries are kept  in the 
>  changelog. Documentation says that a change of the value requires a 
>  server restart.
>  1. Do I have to restart the server, when I enable replication, where I 
>  set a value (let's say "30d") during the enabling process - in ldap 
>  terms, I include nssslapd-changelogmaxage: 30d as an attribute, when 
>  the entry cn=changelog5, cn=config gets added? 
No.
>  2. What happens if I  have a changelog (previsously set to unlimited
>
>  age) and I set the value to 30d. Does it remove every entry older than 
>  30 days, after the restart. It looks to me that the size of the 
>  database did not change, because I did not gain any diskspace after I 
>  restarted the server. 
Not sure.  You could use the cl-dump tool to examine the
changelog.
>  Thanks,
>  -Reinhard
>
>
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