Re: getting very frustrated with lack of success

[Leila Lappin <galaxylappin@comcast.net>]

Hi,

Perhaps, you could give setup instruction (step by step ) for setting up
Redhat 7.2 which is the latest version of the popular Linux operating
system.  I have used the documentation on your site for openLDAP and it is
the most useful I've found on any site so far.  I wish you had the same for
setting up Redhat 7.2 Linux.  I went to Redhat site and couldn't find a
single piece of information to help me get my setup going!



----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Williams" <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: "ivan" <ivan@es.usyd.edu.au>
Cc: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: getting very frustrated with lack of success


> >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.
>
> I am trying to create a decent OpenLDAP document with my LDAP
> presentation (ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf).  If you can
> think of something I should cover or some point to elaborate on I'm more
> than happy to hear it.
>
> >>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.
>
>