Le Thursday 22 November 2007 17:53:08 Cyrille Bollu, vous avez écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> is there something to do to prevent "tar" to lookup for username when it's
> estimating the size of the DLE's (like when you do "ls -ln" instead of "ls
> -l")?
>
> It seems that this process puts a very high load on my LDAP server... Such
> a high load that I'm planing to install a new LDAP slave only for the
> backup
>
> Any clue?
>

Could be... But the problem is, it won't be synchronized in real time AND it 
requires that you have shadow passwords!

You could put in a cron, at regular enough intervals, these two commands:

getent passwd >/etc/passwd
getent group >/etc/group

But of course DO A BACKUP OF /etc/passwd FIRST.

This based on the premise that you use nsswitch.conf and that your passwd and 
group entries read both "files ldap".

However, the fact that it puts a high load on the LDAP server means one of two 
things (sorry,veering off topic here):

1. you have a s*load of files;
2. your LDAP database is not indexed correctly.

You should try and investigate on the LDAP front as well.

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