Re: Can not modify cn=conf - openldap 2.4.15

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:56 AM -0700 Mathew Rowley 
<mathew_rowley@cable.comcast.com> wrote:

> The command I was using did not define a file or a directory, so I assume
> it was using my default slapd.conf.
>
> When using 'slapd' in tool mode, does it spawn the slapd server then
> perform the command, then kill the server?  Meaning, should I have ldap
> stopped when using slapd in tool mode?

Ok, to do what you are doing, you need to be using the new cn=config 
format, and not slapd.conf

Second, slap* tools are all offline functions.  So yes, slapd should not be 
running when you use them.  (slapcat is the general exception, with some 
caveats, read the documentation on it).

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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