overlay chain

[Ed Greenberg <edg@greenberg.org>]

Hi, folks,

I have a slave running syncrepl (just fine) which is getting hit with 
update requests, which are, of course, failing. I'd like to have them 
succeed.  I could not find anything in the docs that would allow the 
slave to issue a referral. That seems to be limited to slurpd, if I 
understand correctly.

So I tried to implement chained updates. I put the following into my 
slaves slapd.conf:

overlay                 chain
chain-rebind-as-user    FALSE

chain-uri               "ldap://master.mydomain.com";
chain-rebind-as-user    TRUE
chain-idassert-bind     bindmethod="simple"
                       binddn="cn=Manager,dc=mydomain,dc=com"
                       credentials="secret"
                       mode="self"  

This does not seem to be sufficient, but I can't figure out from the 
slapo manpage what else is required.

I get error 0x35, that the slave refuses to perform the operation. (I 
tried whipping and otherwise punishing the slave, but it did not improve 
it's attitude.  :)

There does not seem to be a good howto for this.

Can somebody send me a pointer or an answer?

Thanks,
</edg>
Ed Greenberg
West Hollywood, CA