Re: Different CN's for DN and CN.

["Pierangelo Masarati" <ando@sys-net.it>]

> On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 09:33, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 17 Mar 2003, Andrew McCall wrote:
>> >
>> >> It looks like I have a load of perl-coding so I can clear this up
>> :(
>> >
>> > If it's any help, I have a Perl script that looks for this and other
>> anomalies; it doesn't correct them, but reports them.  It takes a
>> slapcat file as input (I can't use Net::LDAP because it croaks in
>> the face of these errors).
>> >
>> > It currently looks for:
>> >
>> >   Missing RDN
>> >   Multiple RDNs
>> >   Mismatched RDN
>> >   Missing superior for objectClass
>> >   Orphan
>>
>> You may also run slapadd in continue mode (-c) and in
>
> I knew about the -c - its very usefull when porting between directory
> servers.  I used it to port our directory from Netcape Directory Service
> 3.1 to OpenLDAP 2.
>
>> dryrun mode (-u, which I notice now it's undocumented);
>> this way it doesn't stop in case of error and it doesn't
>> actually write to the backend.
>
> This would be very usefull! How do you find out about undocumented
> features?

usually there are no undocumented features
(in released ocde, at least); I guess it's
my fault, I forgot to update the docs or
something like that. Sorry.

> Do I have to "use the source".... ?

yes, guaranteed they're uop to date :)

p.

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Pierangelo Masarati
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