Re: Setup syncrepl on Redhat Fedora

[Daniel Qian <daniel@up247solution.com>]

On 11-06-08 2:27 AM, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Am Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:36:23 -0400
> schrieb Daniel Qian<daniel@up247solution.com>:
>
> > On 11-06-07 4:12 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> > > Daniel Qian wrote:
> > > > On 11-06-07 3:37 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> > > > > On Ubuntu you would leave slapd running and just do this (as
> > > > > root):
> > > > >
> > > > > # ldapmodify -H ldapi:// -Y EXTERNAL<<EOF
> > > > > dn: cn=module{0},cn=config
> > > > > changetype: modify
> > > > > add: olcModuleLoad
> > > > > olcModuleLoad: syncprov.la
> > > > > -
> > > > >
> > > > > dn: olcOverlay=syncprov,olcDatabase={1}bdb,cn=config
> > > > > changetype: add
> > > > > objectClass: olcSyncProvConfig
> > > > > olcOverlay: {0}syncprov
> > > > > olcSpCheckpoint: 100 10
> > > > > olcSpSessionlog: 100
> > > > > -
> > > > > EOF
> > > > Looks like I don't even have a module{0} in my setup.
> > > So what does that tell you? Use your brain and think.
> > >
> > > Obviously the backends are working without any module
> > > configuration, which means the backends were statically compiled
> > > into slapd. So, knowing nothing else at all about how RedHat built
> > > this, you have a few possibilities:
> > > 1) there is no module support at all
> > >    a) all of the overlays are statically compiled in
> > >    b) some/none of the overlays are statically compiled in
> > > 2) there is module support
> > >    a) all of the overlays are statically compiled in
> > >    b) some of the overlays are dynamic
> > >
> > > It would take all of a minute for you to investigate and discover
> > > what the situation is with your build.
> > I actually trying to think hard but there is just not enough
> > information for me to think with :)
> >
> > You pretty much listed all the possibilities. I think backend binary
> > is compiled but not syncprov as I can see the distribution package
> > installed this as separate library files -
> > /usr/lib64/openldap/syncprov-2.4.so.2.6.0  /usr/lib64/openldap/syncprov.la
> man slapd(8), slapd -VVV will show you all static build in overlays and
> backends.
>
> -Dieter

Thanks a lot for pointing out this useful command option. Its one of 
those things I was searching for but was not able to get easily.

In my case redhat has bdb/hdb compiled in but not syncprov and that 
explains what I have seen so far.