Re: problems following quickstart guide

[Bill Dossett <postmaster@bill.co.uk>]

hmmm... although I searched the archives for my exact
error message, it said no matches... after googling my
exact error message, I got loads of hits... and they
were all to do with spaces... and after going through 
it char by char, I did have a space on the blank line
at at the end of an object line, which is pretty weird
as I typed it in and I usually don't put spaces at the
end of my lines... wierd but it worked...  looks like
the search engine might need a little work, but that's
what google is for I guess.

thanks
Bill


On Monday 09 Sep 2002 12:47 pm, Bill Dossett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with the quickstart guide.
>
> I'm using Redhat 7.2 and their RPMs of openLDAP,
> rpm -q openLDAP
> yeilds 2.0.11-13  which I assume works, quite
> a few Redhat RPMS do tend to work.
>
> In the quickstart guide, I have configured
> the slapd.conf and started slapd successfully.
> I have checked to see if the server is configured
> and running correctly using the ldapsearch
> syntax and it returns the same values as the
> quickstart guide says it should.  I then create
> the example.ldif (by typing it all, not copy and paste,
> there isn't any extra white space... but when
> I do the ldapaddm, I get error message:
>
> ldap_add: Invalid syntax
>           additional info: objectclass: objectclass: value #0 contains
> invalid data
>
> Now I have looked at this example file many times over the last
> 24 hours and I can't spot the problem ... this is my example.ldif:
>
> dn: dc=emtex,dc=com
> objectclass: dcObject
> objectclass: organization
> o: Emtex Limited
> dc: emtex
>
> dn: cn=Manager,dc=emtex,dc=com
> objectclass: organizationalRole
> cn: Manager
>
> I am using the command
>
> ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=emtex,dc=com" -W -f example.ldif
>
>
> Can anyone tell me how the error message relates to this...
> I am also reading other docs .. not just the quickstart,
> but I am trying to get an example working as well as I find
> it helps to have a working example
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill