Re: why does slurpd ignore my replogfile directive?

[D.M.Lewney@sussex.ac.uk (Dave Lewney)]

Dan Shriver wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>    I am having problems doing replication.
>    I am specifing a custom directory for the replication logs,
> but when I try to launch slurpd it ignores the custom directory
> and (trying to find the default) kills itself when it can't find
> a directory to work with.
>    I had this problem earlier and solved it by using the
> directory it wanted to default to but I can't do that now
> (because I'm testing multimaster replication on one box... thus
> they'd all want to use the same directory and keep overwriting
> each others files).
> 
> My slapd.conf has the line:
> 
> replogfile /usr/local/var/master1_ldbm/replog1
> 
> And when I debug I see that it is being read (but oddly also not
> used).  Slurpd says (in the end):
> 
> /usr/local/var/openldap-slurp/replica: No such file or directory
> 
> Out of desperation I have even tried passing slurpd an argument
> for the replication file (the following is one line of text that
> may be broken up):
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/slurpd -f
> /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd_mm1.conf -r
> /usr/local/var/master1_ldbm/replog1/slurpd.replog
> &>slurpdMaster1Out &
> 
> I get the same results (it is ignoring the -r directive).
> What should I do?

Try using the -t option for slurpd ... something like ...

/usr/local/libexec/slurpd -t /usr/local/var/master1_ldbm/replog1 
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Dave
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