Re: DB Cleaning! Please help!

[David Young <dyoung@nettonettech.com>]

Your rootdn is in your slapd.conf. You will still need to add your base DN
and root DN to the new ldif.

Also, FYI, you can use slapadd to build a new database from an ldif. Might
be faster than ldapadd.

> From: "Rick Kukiela" <ldap@urbancom.net>
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:58:39 -0500
> To: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
> Subject: Re: DB Cleaning! Please help!
> 
> Thanks, but will this delete my root CN record or will that still be ok?
> 
> Thanks
> Rick Kukiela
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniell Freed
> To: Rick Kukiela
> Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: DB Cleaning! Please help!
> 
> 
> You can kill all slapd services running.  Then just delete the database, the
> location of the db is indicated in the slapd.conf file by the directory
> line.  In my case it is /var/lib/ldap/.  Just remove the files from there,
> not the directory itself.
> Start slapd up again and you should be able to import your ldif.
> Dan
> Rick Kukiela wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to clean out my entire LDAP db because I have a new LDIF will all
> updated information I would like to import using the ldapadd command.
> Unfortunatly, I cannot do that until the db is empty because I get entry
> already exists errors. Is there a simply way to start the DB from scratch so
> that I can re-import everything?
> Please help! I have been searching the web and list archives for about 3
> days now and can't seem to find anything!!
> Thanks,
> Rick Kukiela
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