Re: slapadd problems with 2.1.16

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:49 AM -0500 Diego Julian Remolina 
<dijuremo@math.gatech.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I updated from openldap 2.1.12 to 2.1.16 and now when I try to create a
> database with slapadd I get the following error:
>
> hilbert:/etc/openldap/ldiff # which slapadd
> /usr/local/sbin/slapadd
> hilbert:/etc/openldap/ldiff # ls -l /usr/local/sbin/slapadd
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          37 Mar 25 13:33
> /usr/local/sbin/slapadd -> ../encap/openldap-2.1.16/sbin/slapadd
> hilbert:/etc/openldap/ldiff # slapadd -l entries.ldif
> slapadd: dn="dc=math,dc=gatech,dc=edu" (line=8): (16) value of naming
> attribute 'dc' is not present in entry
> hilbert:/etc/openldap/ldiff #
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> My entries.ldiff file is:
> hilbert:/etc/openldap/ldiff # cat entries.ldif
> # School of Mathematics Ldap Entry
> dn: dc=math,dc=gatech,dc=edu
> objectClass: dcObject
> objectClass: organization
> dc: math.gatech
> o: School of Mathematics - Georgia Institute of Technology
> description: School of Mathematics - Georgia Tech LDAP Database
>
> # Administrative user for SoM Ldap database
> dn: cn=Manager,dc=math,dc=gatech,dc=edu
> objectClass: organizationalRole
> cn: Manager
> description: SuperUser for Ldap Services
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But if I use slapadd from 2.1.12 then:
> hilbert:/etc/openldap/ldiff #
> /usr/local/encap/openldap-2.1.12/sbin/slapadd -l entries.ldif
> hilbert:/etc/openldap/ldiff #
>
> no errors..........
>
> The database created with slapadd from 2.1.16 does not have any
> information while the one created with slapadd 2.1.12 has all the entries.
>
> Any ideas?

Sure, slapadd on 2.1.16 is smarter and does better error checking.  Your dc 
attribute does not match the name you declared (dc=math.gatech != dc=math).

I ran into the same issue after upgrading to 2.1.14, caught a typo we had 
in one of our files.

--Quanah


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