Re: slapd feature

[Harutyunyan Victor <hvictor@henphyt.yerphi.am>]

Thanks for replies,

I have many slaves and I want realize one program. I think this problem 
will be solved, and all modifications in master's schema files will be 
synchronize with all slave server's schema files.
sorry for my bad english, but I think you understand me :)
Regards,
Victor


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Jeff Warnica wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-13-09 at 20:46 +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> > man, 13.09.2004 kl. 20.06 skrev Quanah Gibson-Mount:
> > > 
> > > No.  The schema is kept in a file, whereas the data is kept in a database. 
> > > So you need to update the schema on all your slaves when you update it on 
> > > the master as well.  Perhaps in a future release this will no longer be the 
> > > case.
> > 
> > Supposing the slave has a different base with different subsets of
> > objectclasses? Supposing ... slapd.conf and its include files would also
> > have to be updated to cope. One'd be dealing with a separate DB for all
> > of these, instead of flat files - I'll be gaga before that's realized
> > (or I'm a Dutchman ;)
> 
> I really have no idea what your trying to say here.
> 
> > This would also go against the grain of syncrepl and proxying.
> 
> Perhaps, but ...
> 
> > I take it that people don't have so many slaves/consumers that
> > individual configuration would become impossible. Although Novell has a
> > good solution with eDirectory (had already with NDS 4.1), but that's
> > another ball game ;)
> 
> NDS is capable of doing read-write replication, and a whole bunch of
> other things that OpenLDAP is not.
> 
> The easiest solution to distributing the schema files is not to do so at
> all. That is, turn schema checking off on all servers except for the
> master.
> 
>