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Re: parent does not exist ? (ITS #284)



"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:

> At 01:46 PM 9/9/99 -0600, Giri Raichur wrote:
> >I get a "No such object" while adding an entry and "Operations error"
> >while deleting an entry.
>
> It appears you created your database with invalid entries.
> When creating a database, use ldapadd(1) and not ldif2ldbm(8).
> ldif2ldbm(8) is a database recovery tool and does not do any
> schema/naming checked.
>
> I suggest you use ldbm2ldif -n to generate an LDIF file and
> than scrap your current database (using rm).  Then restart
> slapd without any preexisting entries and use ldapadd(1)
> to rebuild.
>
> Kurt

I am a little confused. I have more than 15K entries. The Slapd Admin
Guide recommends using
index generation tools such as ldif2ldbm for creating large number of
entries. because ldapadd takes
a long time to rebuild.
Thanks,

    Giri