Re: value of naming attribute 'dc' is not present

[Dave Lewney <d.m.lewney@sussex.ac.uk>]

stephan.budach wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we´re running an Apple OpenDirectory server, which uses an OpenLDAP 
> 2.1.22 as its slapd. Since we´re experiencing some trouble with slapd, 
> such as that slapd becomes slower until its so slow that it is nearly 
> useless, I wanted to check our slapd db and thus I used slapcat -l to 
> export it,

Really? We've run OL 2.1.22 under MacOSX (10.3) for a few months and have 
yet to experience any problems. You don't mention which back-end you're 
using. I would be interested in comparing notes off-list.

> Apple uses slapd without schema checking and I was wondering if turning 
> it on would reveal any problems and in fact it did. While trying to 
> re-import  slapd`s db I encountered the following error:

Are you saying that the default is "schemacheck off" ?

> slapadd: "dn=dc=foo,dc=bar" (line 10): (64) value of naming attribute 
> 'dc' is not present in entry
>
> I took a look at the file generated by slapcat and found the following:
>
> dn: dc=foo,dc=bar
> entryUUID: 2f1a8cec-3427-1028-9ac0-bbac8108d2f4
> creatorsName: uid=root,cn=users,dc=foo,dc=bar
> createTimestamp: 20040507040304Z
> dc: foo,dc
> objectClass: domain
> entryCSN: 2004081110:19:10Z#0x0001#0#0000
> modifiersName: cn=Manager,dc=foo,dc=bar
> modifyTimestamp: 20040811101910Z
>
>
> Is it correct to change the line "dc: foo,dc" to "dc: foo,dc=de", or 
> what would the correct value of the naming attribute be?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephan

The value should be

dc: foo

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