Re: getting started cn=config troubles.

[Eric Irrgang <erici@motown.cc.utexas.edu>]

If you're using the new cn=config directory, then you should change your
command line to
/libexec/slapd -d -1 -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d -u ldap

Note the capital F and the higher level path.

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Cath Hoe wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>After reading Sysadmin 2.3 I'm getting nowhere with the new cn=config.ldif.
>Making some minor changes to the ldif example in
>http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/guide.html#Configuration%20Example
>
>openldap-2.3.17
>
>/libexec/slapd -d -1 -f /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn\=config -u ldap
>
>Cannot google this error:
>--------------------log--------------------------
>reading config file /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif
>line 4 (dn: cn=config)
>/etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif: line 4: unknown directive <dn:>
>outside backend info and database definitions (ignored).
>line 5 (objectClass: olcGlobal)
>/etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif: line 5: unknown directive
><objectClass:> outside backend info and database definitions (ignored).
>line 6 (cn: config)
>/etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif: line 6: unknown directive <cn:>
>outside backend info and database definitions (ignored).
>line 7 (olcIdleTimeout: 3600)
>/etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif: line 7: unknown directive
><olcIdleTimeout:> outside backend info and database definitions (ignored).
>line 8 (olcLogLevel: 192)
>/etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif: line 8: unknown directive
><olcLogLevel:> outside backend info and database definitions (ignored).
>line 19 (schema definitions)
>------------end log--------------------
>ldif
>dn: cn=config  #this is line 4
>objectClass: olcGlobal
>cn: config
>olcIdleTimeout: 3600
>olcLogLevel: 192
>
>schema definitions
>dn: cn=schema,cn=config
>objectClass: olcSchemaConfig
>cn: schema
>
>include: file:///usr/share/openldap/schema/core.ldif
>include: file:///usr/share/openldap/schema/openldap.ldif
>
># DATABASE
>dn: olcDatabase=frontend,cn=config
>objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
>olcDatabase: frontend
>olcAccess: to * by * read
>
>dn: olcDatabase=bdb,cn=config
>objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
>objectClass: olcBdbConfig
>olcDatabase: bdb
>olcSuffix: dc=test
>olcRootDN: cn=Manager,dc=test
>olcRootPW: password
>olcSizeLimit: 5000
>olcTimeLimit: 3600
>olcDbDirectory: /var/lib/ldap/test
>olcDbCachesize: 512
>olcDbCheckpoint: 254 5
>olcDbConfig: set_cachesize 0 10485760 0
>olcDbConfig: set_lg_bsize 2097512
>olcDbConfig: set_lg_dir /var/tmp/bdb-log
>olcDbConfig: set_flags DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE
>olcDbNosync: FALSE
>olcDbIDLcacheSize: 3000
>olcDbIndex: objectClass eq
>olcDbIndex: uid pres,eq
>
>olcAccess: to * by * read
>
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