Re: Syncrepl: 3 simple questions

[Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Torsten Schlabach (Tascel eG) wrote:

> 1. How do I query a master for the cookie?
> 2. How do I query a slave for the coolie?

$ ldapsearch -xLLLH ldap://localhost/ -s base -b "dc=rutgers,dc=edu" contextCSN
dn: dc=rutgers,dc=edu
contextCSN: 20070613170816.000000Z#000000#000#000000

Works on either a slave or a master.

> 3. How do I query the master in a human readable format for all changes
> based on a cookie which I present?

See -E sync option, described in ldapsearch(1) man page, for the syntax 
(it depends on what method you desire, for example you must choose 
refreshOnly/refreshAndPersist). One completed example is at 
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/200909/msg00202.html

(not sure if you'll consider it human-readable, but that's a whole 
different story...it's plain text output, at least?)