Re: wierd problem when setting up replica server

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

--On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:02 PM -0400 "Castelhano, Dan" 
<Dan.Castelhano@OSIP.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My "master" ldap server is configured with an LDBM database and is
> running on a redhat advanced server 3.0 platform...ldap version 2.0.27-11
> (redhat rpm)

OpenLDAP 2.0 is deprecated and not an active version of OpenLDAP to pursue. 
You should seriously consider upgrading.

> I'm trying to setup two "slave" ldap servers. Pretty much the same config
> in slapd.conf as the master server, but with the necessary changes such
> as updatedn and updateref.
>
> One slave server is running redhat advanced server 3.0 (same ldap version
> as master). db files were copied over from the master server and this
> works correctly.
>
> I do the same thing on the 2nd slave server which is running redhat
> advanced server 2.1 this time (ldap version 2.0.27-4.7) and it doesn't
> work. When I try to browse the directory with "ldap browser", I get a
> list failed error...ldapsearch also fails.
>
> I tried setting up slave ldap servers on a few other AS3.0 and AS2.1
> servers I have...the AS3 servers always work...the AS2.1 don't.
>
> I can't figure out what's different with AS2.1...besides a really minor
> version number difference. Anyone else have any ideas?

Different versions of BDB, I believe.  AS 2.1 has an older BDB version than 
AS 3.0.

--Quanah

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