Re: OpenLDAP 2.3.13: slave slapd doesn't start after adding updatedn

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Krishna Sivaramapuram wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm on OpenLDAP 2.3.13 and trying to setup replication with slurpd. 
> When I created the initial nodes the slave slapd was working fine on 
> the slave. The moment I added the updatedn directive in slapd.conf, 
> the slave slapd doesn't start up at all. When I added -d 256 I got the 
> following error and the line #57 has the updatedn directive
>
> ====================
> /usr/local/ldap/etc/openldap/slapd.conf: line 57: frontend database 
> cannot be shadow.
> slapd stopped.
> connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
> ====================
>
> The following is what I did. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
You haven't read the Admin Guide. You put the updatedn directive in the 
wrong place; it is a database-specific option and you put it up front 
where the global directives are.

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