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Re: openldap and redhat 7.1

At 03:51 PM 5/14/01, yan seiner wrote:
>Amen.  Or even a ldif-lint standalone utilty that would offer basic sanity checks against a schema - font sets (my bane), spaces at end of lines, even duplicate entries or illegal entries.

Feel free to contribute something.

>We lost about a third of our database when we converted to ldap - all due to basic things like differences in format of phone numbers, illegal characters like spaces at end of lines, and cr/lf instead of \n from DOS clients.
>
>Food for thought,
>
>--Yan
>
>Paul Sorenson wrote:
>
>>Glen,
>>
>>I think stripping spurious spaces would be a good idea.  If not, the error
>>messages could be a little more informative - my C compiler doesn't go and
>>add ';' on the end of lines but it tells me it was expecting one.
>