Re: slapcat with option -b?

["Pierangelo Masarati" <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

Susanne Benkert writes: 

> Hi, 
>
> I have a problem with slapcat: 
>
> Serveral times I tried to create a LDIF from a subtree of my 
> ldap-directory (openldap-2.0.23) using 
>
> 	slapcat -b "ou=teil,ou=myorganization,o=de" 
>
> but every time it failed - I got LDIFs of my whole database. 
>
> What did I wrong? Is there any other possibility to create LDIFs of 
> subtrees?

To my knowledge, -b selects a NAMING CONTEXT, not a subtree; if you have
multiple databases with different naming contexts, you can use this option
to select which database you want to cat.  Then, the whole database
gets cat. 

Pierangelo. 


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