Re: Failure while importing an exported ldif file

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, December 02, 2011 8:59 AM +0100 Axel Birndt <towerlexa@gmx.de> 
wrote:

> Good Morning Quanah,
>
> thanks for your fast answer. I tried it yesterday, but not with this
> exact command from you.... but unfortunately it doesn't work.
>
> Am 01.12.2011 22:58, schrieb Quanah Gibson-Mount:
> > --On Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:38 PM +0100 Axel Birndt
> > <towerlexa@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Yet you are trying to *slapadd* your primary database into the cn=config
> > database. Why are you surprised this doesn't work?
> >
> > Also, you need to import the config first. So your first slapadd command
> > should be:
> >
> > sudo slapadd -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d -n 0 -l cn_config_export.ldif
> This fails with the following error:
>
> abirndt@lvps83-169-33-218:~/openldap_2axels-company$ sudo slapadd -F
> /etc/ldap/slapd.d -n 0 -l cn_config_export.ldif
> [sudo] password for abirndt:
> slapadd: could not add entry dn="cn=config" (line=1):
>
> But how could i add the initial import from the cn=config informations?
> Yesterday i spend some hours in googling for that, but don't find the
> correct solution...

Did you remove the old config database from /etc/ldap/slapd.d?  If there is 
already a config database existing, it will fail to overwrite it.  The fact 
that the second slapadd succeeds strongly indicates you did not get rid of 
the old cn=config db.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
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