[Bug 450645] Re: error during slapd configuration: chown: cannot access `olcDbDirectory\nolcDbDirectory'

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

I didn't explain clearly in my earlier comments that it's only the
olcDbDirectory grep that actually causes the "chown" error here. I added
the ".ldif" extension to the grep in the get_suffix function only to
keep the two consistent (figuring that if it's true we only care about
files that end in ".ldif" then we should be restricting our searches to
such file in both places).

However, the two "grep"s are actually different enough that making your
changes to the first one won't do what you want....  In particular, the
"-h" option given there means that the filenames are never printed;
adding "/dev/null" doesn't change anything, and changing the "cut"
command to use the third field just means that the pipeline always
returns an empty list of suffixes.  In your particular case, though, it
ends up working out fine, since the result is that the postinst script
completes without an error... but that is because it doesn't try to
update the permissions on any of the database directories, rather than
because it is now successfully determining the path of the directory
that needs to be updated....

It certainly seems like a good idea, though, to make the get_directory
function a bit more robust.  But I'm not sure off hand if it makes more
sense to just pick the first directory that is found for a given suffix,
or to try to return all of those directories. (That is, by making the
"grep" pipeline a bit smarter, it seems like one could just return a
list of all the database directories, and run the "chown" on that list.)

(In your case, does the olcDatabase={3}ldap.ldif file really describe an
active backend that has both the same suffix and database directory as
the one described in the olcDatabase={1}hdb.ldif file?)

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error during slapd configuration: chown: cannot access `olcDbDirectory\nolcDbDirectory'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/450645
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