Re: Problem with slapcat

[jansenw@cs.tum.edu]

Howard Chu wrote:
> 
> slapcat dumps out entries in whatever order the database stored them. If you
> are using a hashing database library for ldbm, this will be a fairly random
> order. If you are using Berkeley DB with ldbm, in Btree mode, the entries
> should be listed in ascending entry_ID order. But there's a bug here that
> affects all Intel and other little-endian platforms: the entry ID is stored
> in little-endian order but BDB sorts in big-endian order, so it will again
> come up scrambled. I committed a patch for this BDB sorting problem about 3
> weeks ago in the development branch, but unfortunately that patch is not in
> any released versions yet. (My oversight; I think it should have gone into
> 2.0.19 but I missed it.) If you are not using BDB with the (default) Btree
> configuration, then there really isn't any solution.
> 
>   -- Howard Chu
>   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
>   http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
>   Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Shih-Chang Wang
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:31 AM
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Problem with slapcat
> 
> Hi, all:
> 
> I tried to dump my OpenLDAP database into LDIF format by using slapcat
> utility.
> However, the entris of the output file start form the middle of the DIT,
> not start from the root DN with a hierachical approach. So, I can not
> re-import data successfully with the output LDIF file. This problem seems
> to be a FAQ, but I can not find the solution from the mailing-list
> discussions.
> My enviroments:
> Redhat 7.0 & OpenLDAP-2.0.11

You can add your LDIF data in "offline"-mode. That means, your
LDAP-Server must not be running, and your LDIF data will be converted
directly into your database files (according to your slapd.conf). See
man slapadd for details.

Caution: Using slapadd will _overwrite_ existing databases, so don't
use ist if you want to add to a database. 

HIH

CU
Werner