Re: (ITS#7786) Impossible to modify cn=config if olcDbDirectory doesn't exist

[pierangelo.masarati@polimi.it]

On 01/15/2014 09:59 AM, raphael.ouazana@linagora.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Raphael Ouazana
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>
> Hi,
>
> I have an old configuration that I would like to export/reimport. The
> olcDbDirectory item of this configuration contains a directory that does not
> longer exist.
> It it then impossible to modify the parameter:
> - I was told not to edit directly LDIF config files
> - if i try a slapcat -n0 I get:
> 52d64c91 olcDbDirectory: value #0: invalid path: No such file or directory
> 52d64c91 config error processing olcDatabase={2}hdb,cn=config: olcDbDirectory:
> value #0: invalid path: No such file or directory
> slapcat: bad configuration directory!
>
> I think slapcat should always allow to export a configuration.

I see the point; slapcat is failing because to export the configuration 
(c->op == SLAP_CONFIG_EMIT) it needs to read the configuration first, 
and it reads the whole config tree.

Perhaps when slapcat of only the config database is requested, config 
parsing should skip other databases, or at least ignore errors, if possible.

p.


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Pierangelo Masarati
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Aerospaziali
Politecnico di Milano