RE: ldapadd says "no such object"

["Shawn Rutledge" <shawn@ewisdom.com>]

Did you create a database first?  Are there several .dbb files in /var/ldap
or wherever you keep them?  If not then you need to start with an ldif file
first, and run ldif2dbm, as explained in the "Getting Started" section of
the slapd administrator's guide.  "No such object" probably just means your
top-level entries, that you are trying to add new data underneath, are not
there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Hanasaki
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 3:22 PM
> To: openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: ldapadd says "no such object"
>
>
> I have setup opendap.org's current version as of 4/20/1999.  the
> platform is a sun box with the current version of SunOS.  I dont have
> the exacte ver number.
>
> All seems well until I try
>
> ldapadd -f entry
>
> entry is a file with basically the same information as the example in
> the man pages.  The only changes I have made are to the suffix and
> rootdn.  The rootdn is the same as the suffix with the addition of a
> cn:  blah entry.
>
> ldapadd comes back with "No such object".
>
> can anyone provide input?
>
> TIA
>