Creating the changelog in Directory Server 5.2
For a changelog to be created, either the parent directory of where the changelog is to be created needs to be owned (and writable!) by the directory server user, or the changelog directory itself needs to be owned by the directory server user. In the LDIF example below, the changelog is created in the installation directory (/opt/ldap/slapd-ds0) with the maximum number of active entries to keep in the changelog of 999999, and the maximum number of days to keep information in the changelog of 7d.
dn: cn=changelog5,cn=config
changetype: add
objectClass: extensibleObject
objectClass: top
cn: changelog5
nsslapd-changelogdir: /opt/ldap/slapd-ds0/changelogdb
nsslapd-changelogmaxentries: 999999
nsslapd-changelogmaxage: 7d
Create a file with the above contents and save it to disk (I saved mine as /tmp/createchangelogdb.ldif).
Update your directory server instance via ldapmodify to create the changelog database.
/usr/bin/ldapmodify -h host -p port -D ‘rootdn‘ -w ‘password‘ -c -f /tmp/createchangelogdb.ldif
