Re: getting very frustrated with lack of success

[Kervin Pierre <kpierre@fit.edu>]

Hi,

I agree with the part about needing documentation.  This is why I 
started a OpenLDAP api tutorial ( work in 
progresshttp://olin.fit.edu/~kervin/openldap_capi_tutorial/ ), and I'm 
also planning on working on a win32 OpenLDAP document very soon which 
will be available from http://acctsync.sourceforge.net/ .

But it is apparent that OpenLDAP is suffering from labour shortage. 
From the developers list and the website, it looks like there are only 
a few programmers working substancially on OpenLDAP.

As usual with time shortages, documention is the first to suffer.  It 
wouldn't take much to come up with an updated list of FAQs and add them 
to the auto-FAQ thingie on the website.  Or to submit a patch for more 
detailed error messages, or a HOWTO on slapd.conf, etc., if users stop a 
 second and document what they found out.

my $0.02,
--Kervin

ivan wrote:
> On 18 Mar 2002, Brandon Young wrote:
>
> Agree. 
>
> I had the same problems and I an not a complete stranger to
> Unix/Linux. 
>
> There should be a collective effort to make documenting 
> OpenLDAP for the end users. It is a great technology and it is needed by 
> the open source community.
>
>  
>
>
>
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I have been silently suffering through what has turned into an ordeal
> > with trying to set up a simply configured, very basic ldap server.  I
> > have followed the directions in the HOWTO, the Quickstart Guide, and a
> > quasi-HOWTO to this mailing list (From: "Simon
> > Ritchie"<Simon.Ritchie@net.ntl.com>, Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:00:53
> > +0100) paying particular attention to the provided slapd.conf configs on
> > several different occasions.  In fact, I am copying the config files
> > EXACTLY from these documents.  Each time, I am running into the same
> > problem: "ldap_add: Operations error".  This leads me to believe that
> > either my ldap install/database is broken, or I'm asking the ldap server
> > to do something the wrong way (my ldif file is syntactically incorrect,
> > or my ldapadd command is syntactically wrong, or something).
> >
> > It's very frustrating.  I have searched through the mailing list
> > archives, but found nothing that has helped me get around the issue. 
> > Nothing in the documents I have read helps either.  I have never found
> > any sort of troubleshooting guide, either.  So ...
> >
> > Here are the details of my setup:  RedHat 7.2, installed openldap from
> > RPM packages (version 2.0.22 from open-it.org).  I have attached my
> > slapd.conf and init.ldif.
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> > Here's the output I get when I run ldapadd:
> >
> > [root@redhat openldap]# /etc/init.d/ldap start
> > Starting slapd:                                            [  OK  ]
> > [root@redhat openldap]# ldapadd -x -D "cn=noris,o=home,c=sys" -f
> > init.ldif -W
> > Enter LDAP Password: 
> > adding new entry "o=home, c=sys"
> > ldap_add: Operations error
> >
> > ldif_record() = 1
> >
> >
> > Does anything immediately jump out at anyone as being wrong?  I'm lost,
> > and very frustrated.  Is it possible that I have munged my database with
> > so much messing around?  I keep seeing references to destroying the
> > database and starting over with a fresh new database, but ... how do I
> > do that?  What files do I delete?  Is there a command I need to run?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.



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