Re: syncrepl synchronization cookie

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Saket Sathe wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a newbie to syncrepl. In my configuration the provider is a OL 
> 2.3.4 with BDB 4.2.52 + four patches. The consumer is a OL 2.2.26 with 
> BDB 4.2.52 + four patches.
>
> The contextCSN attributes on my provider and consumer reflect the 
> following values:
> Provider: 20050811075850Z#000001#00#000000
> Consumer: 20050807195433Z#000001#00#000000
>
> According to the admin guide:
> "The consumer also stores its replica state, which is the provider's 
> contextCSN received as a synchronization cookie, in the contextCSN 
> attribute of the suffix entry. "
The above statement comes from the 2.3 Admin Guide and (naturally) only 
applies to the 2.3 code. Since your consumer is 2.2 you should refer to 
the OpenLDAP 2.2 documentation; the consumer did things differently there.

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