Re: Importing an LDIF file

[David Young <dyoung@NetToNetTech.com>]

Are you running ldapadd with the -d option? When I had ldif import problems,
using '-d 2048' (I think) gave me a more detailed error about what exactly
was invalid.

If you pare down your ldif file to just one entry, does that work? That
would tell you whether you have a problem with the the file format itself,
or whether its something about particular entries.


> From: "Tim K." <timk@colubs.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:30:20 -0800
> To: "OpenLDAP mailinglist" <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
> Subject: Importing an LDIF file
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have installed OpenLDAP 1.2.9-6 (from an rpm file) onto a RedHat 6.x
> system.  Everything went well until I had to import the LDIF file that
> contains the employee information for the company.  It seems that regardless
> of what I try, it continues to fail, displaying the message
> 
> "ldapadd: invalid format (line xx of entry: o=<domain>,c=US"
> 
> (I find it interesting that there is no closing parenthesis, but that's
> probably just a minor goof.)
> 
> The ldif file in question is created on a Windows NT box and then
> transferred over to this RedHat system where it's supposed to be imported
> nightly.  I initially believed that the root of the problem lay in the fact
> that the ldif file is created on a WinDoze system, but I've used two methods
> to ensure that all of the CR/LFs were translated to simple LFs (using
> search-&-replace in a binary file viewer/editor and sending the file through
> the 'tr -d "\r"' command).
> 
> I could certainly go through the file by hand if it were smaller, but
> 'wc -l' shows me that it's 3,927 lines long - & doing that daily is
> impractical to say the least.
> 
> Any guidance/suggestions would be *most* welcome.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Tim K.
> 
>