On Jan 31, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Bog Patterson wrote:
I have four OS X 10.3.7 Servers. One is the OD Master and the
remaining three are replicas. Our OD Master has died this weekend
(SAMBA log grew out of control and filled the HD). After removing the
Samba logs and restarting, the OD Master has ceased to work correctly.
I would like to avoid restoring the Master from our Retrospect
backups(I believe these may be corrupt also). Can I promote one of the
replicas to OD Master, start from scratch with the original OD Master
making it a replica, then promoting it back as the OD Master?
Yeah, that's basically workable, but I believe there is the following
caveat: when you promote a replica to a master, the other replicas
don't know about that change, and are still looking for the old server
as the 'writable master'. Discover this by looking in
/Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/DSLDAPv3PlugInConfig.plist for
the 'writable master' value. It may be advisable to tear down /
re-promote the other replicas once you promote an existing replica to
master to allow the other replicas to rebuild the ldap plugin plist, so
that they know who the writable master is. You may need to do the same
thing any time the master's IP changes. If you have problems, feel free
to trash DSLDAPv3PlugInConfig.plist to let it regenerate a fresh one
(do this phase while in standalone, then reconnect, etc).
-Andre
(p.s. the samba logging thing bit me too, which is a good argument for
putting /var somewhere else other than boot)
Any advice here pro/con would be appreciated.
--
Bog Patterson, Network Administrator
Boone Community School District
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