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Re: (ITS#5321) slapindex fails to create cn=config from configuration file
joshua@itsecureadmin.com wrote:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:09 PM +0000 joshua@itsecureadmin.com
>>> Full_Name: Joshua Miller
>>> Version: 2.4.7
>>> OS: CentOS 5
>>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (198.134.96.10)
>> What makes you think you should be using slapindex to do this?
>
>
> The admin guide suggests that any slap* command should do this:
>
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/slapdconf2.html#cn=config
>
>
> Also, the slapd-config man page:
>
> Alternatively, an existing slapd.conf file can be converted to
> the new format using slapd or any of the slap tools:
> slaptest -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F ETCDIR/slapd.d
The docs are incomplete. slapd or slaptest will always work; the other tools
(slapadd/slapcat/slapindex) don't actually invoke the config database's
startup routine unless you're explicitly operating on the config backend
therefore the conversion won't occur in general.
--
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/