Re: Setting up a chain overlay

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

>   Hi,
>
> I am trying to setup a chain overlay to allow writes to a read-only
> slave to be chained up to the master.
>
> The closest ldif file I could figure out to update the cn=config
> directory was:
>
>
> dn: olcOverlay={0}chain,olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config
> changetype: add
> objectClass: olcOverlayConfig
> objectClass: olcChainConfig
> olcOverlay: {0}chain
>
> dn:
> olcDatabase=ldap,olcOverlay={0}chain,olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config
> changetype: add
> objectClass: olcLDAPConfig
> objectClass: olcChainDatabase
> olcDBURI:ldap://10.1.0.3/
> olcDbIDAssertBind: bindmethod=simple
>    binddn="cn=admin,dc=roessner-net,dc=de"
>    credentials=**********
>    mode=self
>
>
> This works until I have to restart the slave ldap server because this is
> an invalid config.
>
> Can anyone let me know an ldif file to set up the chain to the master?
> Or at least point me to the right direction.

Please try this patch
<ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/pierangelo-masarati-2010-04-29-chain.1.patch>,
posted some time ago in partial response to ITS#6540 and report.  Thanks,
p.