OpenLDAP as Replica for Netscape Directory Server

["Mark E. Drummond" <drummond-m@rmc.ca>]

I am trying to implement OpenLDAP 1.2.7 as a replica for Netscape
Directory Server 3.1 (and later, 4.??). I am wondering about the schema
files. We have a modified schema for local use and so I need to copy
that schema over to my OpenLDAP server. Only the syntax for the
OpenLDAP files and the NDS files does not appear to be the same. If
I try to blindly use the NDS files in place of the OpenLDAP files I get
a ton of lines like the following:

Nov 30 15:39:26 signals slapd[21353]:
/opt/OpenLDAP/etc/openldap/slapd.at.conf: line 106: unknown syntax "int"
in attribute line (ignored)
Nov 30 15:39:26 signals slapd[21353]: possible syntaxes are "cis",
"ces", "tel", "dn", or "bin"
Nov 30 15:39:26 signals slapd[21353]:
/opt/OpenLDAP/etc/openldap/slapd.at.conf: line 142: unknown syntax
"single" in attribute line (ignored)
Nov 30 15:39:26 signals slapd[21353]: possible syntaxes are "cis",
"ces", "tel", "dn", or "bin"

Then the server fails to start. Am I going to have to hand edit the
schema files every time I make a change to my schema in NDS?

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Gang Warily