Re: Faq-O-Matic Example doesn't work "A (nearly) complete Address Boo k example"

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:52 PM -0400 Bruce Platt <Bruce@ei3.com> 
wrote:

> I have a working ldap db (lbdm) which works just fine for what I am doing
> now.  It is very simplistic, though, and in learning how to do what I
> want, I have been looking at some Faq-o-Matic pages, e.g. :
> http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1005.html  This is
>
> I have downloaded the .conf file listed and try to use that as my
> slapd.conf file and get an error.
>
> Info as as follows:
>
> Fedora Core 1
> openldap-devel-2.1.22-8
> openldap-2.1.22-8
> openldap-clients-2.1.22-8
>
> The first few lines of the slapd.conf taken from the Address Book Example
> are:
>
> # minimal database
>
> database        bdb
> suffix          "dc=example,dc=com"
> directory       /var/lib/ldap/example.com
> rootdn          "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com"
> rootpw          secret
> index           objectClass     eq
>
> When starting slapd as follows:
>
> slapd -d -1 -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf    (That's -"one" debugging level)
>
> I get:
>
> # slapd -d -1 -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
>
> @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.1.22 (Oct 23 2003 10:23:24) $
>
> root@bugs.devel.redhat.com:/usr/src/build/319319-i386/BUILD/openldap-2.1.
> 22/ build-servers/server
> s/slapd
> daemon_init: <null>
> daemon_init: listen on ldap:///
> daemon_init: 1 listeners to open...
> ldap_url_parse_ext(ldap:///)
> daemon: socket() failed errno=97 (Address family not supported by
> protocol) daemon: initialized ldap:///
> daemon_init: 2 listeners opened
> slapd init: initiated server.
> slap_sasl_init: initialized!
> bdb_initialize: initialize BDB backend
> bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19,
> 2002) reading config file /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
> line 2 (database bdb)
> bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database
> line 3 (suffix  "dc=example,dc=com")
> > > > dnPrettyNormal: <dc=example,dc=com>
> => ldap_bv2dn(dc=example,dc=com,0)
> <= ldap_bv2dn(dc=example,dc=com,0)=0
> /etc/openldap/slapd.conf: line 3: suffix DN is invalid
>
>
> Can someone please let me know what is wrong with the suffic statement?  I
> would think this example would work.  And other potions of the
> documentation show this type of construction.


First,

Dump OpenLDAP 2.1.22.  Get the most recent stable release at a minimum

Get BDB-4.2.52 + the two released patches.

There's was a bug in previous releases about empty sufixes (it also looks 
like your database has not been populated via slapadd).

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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