Re: Problem understanding the configuration of two databases.

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Sunday, January 04, 2004 8:19 AM -0600 Nick <nagray@austin.rr.com> 
wrote:

> I bought LDAP System Administration and was able to get the example
> running without a problem. I can't seem to extend the example to be able
> to use more than one database. I was hoping someone could take a quick
> look at the configs and tell me where I went wrong.
>
> Slapd starts fine, but the initial data entry via
>
> "slapadd -v -l /etc/openldap/top.ldif" fails with the message
>
> slapadd: line 14: database (dc=efficax,dc=net) not configured to hold
> "dc=oeddev,dc=org"
> slapadd: line 14: database (dc=efficax,dc=net) not configured to hold
> "dc=oeddev,dc=org"

Read the manpage on slapadd.  By default, slapadd adds your data to the 
*first writeable* defined database in your slapd.conf file.  There are two 
different flags you can give slapadd to use a different database:

-b suffix
	      Use the specified suffix to  determine  which  database  to  add
	      entries  to.   The  -b cannot be used in conjunction with the -n
	      option.

      -n dbnum
	      Add entries to the dbnum-th database listed in the configuration
	      file.   The -n cannot be used in conjunction with the -b option.

--Quanah

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