Re: Replication between different OS

[suomi hasler <schlubediwup@ayni.com>]

have you done a slapcat on your linux machine(s) and integrated the db 
with slapadd on your FreeBSD? or have you just copied the database files?

suomi

Andre Fortin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I currently have 4 RedHat Linux machines running openldap, and replication
> is working fine.  I've added a FreeBSD server and installed openldap, with
> the same schema files and config files.  When I start up slapd, it doesn't
> give any errors.  Upon any query, it returns this error:
>
> Oct 24 13:58:31 slb-mail3 slapd[61499]: <= ldbm_cache_open NULL
> "/usr/local/var/openldap-ldbm/dn2id.dbb" errno=79 reason="Inappropriate file
> type or format")
>
> Is this because the databases are written differently on Linux than FreeBSD?
> Or am I missing something?  If they're not meant to run together, I'll just
> revert to linux again..
>
> All servers are running OpenLDAP 2.0.27.
>
> I have done a slapcat export and imported it into the FreeBSD server, and
> that's fine, but the replication doesn't seem to be even trying to take
> place.. This is probably because it's not an exact replica of the database..
> Is there any way to get this working?  Thanks in advance,
>
>
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> Andre Fortin, CCNA, MCSA, MCSE(W2K)
> Systems Administrator
> Persona Communications - Central Division
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> Sudbury, Ontario
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>
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