Re: Replication failed, only slave is updated...

[Jonas Helgi Palsson <jonas.palsson@bergensskolen.no>]

On Monday 04 July 2005 13:47, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> You likely configured the client to update the slave using
> the updatedn. 

Yes, I did. Shame on me. 

> The updatedn should only be used by slurpd 
> (or when purposely updating a slave as needed to resolve
> a replication inconsistency).  That is, you should not
> use the updatedn for any purpose except replication.

From: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/replication.html
about the updatedn
<quote>
This DN generally /should not/ be the same as the master's rootdn
</qoute>

perhaps it should be written in bold, cursiv and with Caps Lock on... ;-)

In my naïvness I though that:

slapd.conf: updateref ldap://ldapmaster 

was a also defining whom could update it. I was wrong.

Learn something new today! :-)


regards
Jonas

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Jonas Helgi Palsson
"Því jú engum manni eru guðirnir svo grimmir, að gera hann fullkominn"