ITS#6482

CHANGES

@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4 Change Log
 OpenLDAP 2.4.24 Engineering
 	Added contrib/noopsrch for entry counting (ITS#6598)
 	Added slapadd attribute value checking (ITS#6592)
+	Added slapcat continue mode for problematic DBs (ITS#6482)
 	Added slapd-null back-config support (ITS#6624)
 	Added slapd-sql autocommit support (ITS#6612)
-	Addes slapd-sql support for long long keys (ITS#6617)
+	Added slapd-sql support for long long keys (ITS#6617)
 	Fixed liblber to not close invalid sockets (ITS#6585)
 	Fixed libldap dnssrv port format specifier (ITS#6644)
 	Fixed libldap EOF handling (ITS#6723)

doc/man/man8/slapcat.8

@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ option.
 .TP
 .B \-c
 Enable continue (ignore errors) mode.
+Multiple occorrences of
+.B \-c
+make
+.BR slapcat (8)
+try harder.
 .TP
 .BI \-d \ debug-level
 Enable debugging messages as defined by the specified

servers/slapd/slapcat.c

@@ -109,8 +109,22 @@ slapcat( int argc, char **argv )
 		if ( e == NULL ) {
 			printf("# no data for entry id=%08lx\n\n", (long) id );
 			rc = EXIT_FAILURE;
-			if( continuemode ) continue;
-			break;
+			if ( continuemode == 0 ) {
+				break;
+
+			} else if ( continuemode == 1 ) {
+				continue;
+			}
+
+			/* this is a last resort: linearly scan all ids
+			 * trying to recover as much as possible (ITS#6482) */
+			while ( ++id != NOID ) {
+				e = be->be_entry_get( be, id );
+				if ( e != NULL ) break;
+				printf("# no data for entry id=%08lx\n\n", (long) id );
+			}
+
+			if ( e == NULL ) break;
 		}
 
 		if ( doBSF ) {