Re: ldap not very helpful

[Markus Schaber <schaber@scan-plus.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:29:58 -0400 (EDT)
"Kirk A. Turner-Rustin" <ktrustin@owu.edu> wrote:

> > I get the following an error when i try to ldapadd -D
> > "cn=Manager,o=domain-name" -W < test.ldif
> > The error"
> > ldapadd: no attributes to change or add
> > (entry="dc=ldap,dc=domain-name,dc=org       objectClass: top  
> > objectClass: dcObject   objectClass: organization   dc: domain-name 
> >  o:
> > domain-name   description: Full Company Name Domain")
> 
> This is actually a very helpful error message. It's telling you that
> (1) ldapadd cannot discern any attribute lines in your LDIF file, and
> (2) ldapadd is interpreting everything from the first "dn:" to the
> first blank line in your LDIF file as a dn, suggesting to me that
> something may be wrong with the LDIF file...

Maybe it is a dos/unix/mac linefeed conversion problem?

markus
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