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Re: Problem with searches transgressing suffixmassage-d suffix



On Thursday 29 June 2006 18:29, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > We have a weird legacy DIT which is going to be migrated to a new more
> > organised structure by an ongoing project.
> >
> > In the meantime, we are deploying provisioning tools which we would
> > prefer not
> > to modify at the time of the migration.
> >
> > So, back-relay seems to be the obvious solution (provision to the final
> > structure, rewrite with back-relay into the old structure).
> >
> > So, I have added a new database on one of our dev servers:
> >
> >
> > database        relay
> > suffix          "cn=webmail,cn=mail,ou=isp"
> > subordinate
> > relay           cn=webmail,ou=mail,dc=isp massage
> > rootdn          <rootdn>
> >
> > There is a bdb database that holds cn=mail,ou=isp (the legacy basedn).
> >
> > That works great, searches on cn=webmail,cn=mail,ou=isp returns an entry
> > I added under cn=webmail,ou=mail,dc=isp ... except that the first search
> > on the
> > cn=mail,ou=isp suffix kills the relay. Any other search which should find
> > anything under cn=webmail,cn=mail,ou=isp returns error 32.
> >
> >
> > I've also tried replacing the relay database with a configurations
> > using "database meta" and "database ldap" with rwm-suffixmassage, and
> > they do
> > the same thing.
> >
> > It seems I must be missing something here ...
>
> I suggest you try to design a solution where you don't need the relay
> backend to be subordinate to anything.

What I have done is remove the back-relay backend, I need the subordinate more 
at present ...

> I suspect some strange interaction 
> between slapo-glue and back-relay.
>
> If you can come up with an essential configuration + dataset that
> reproduces the problem, I suggest you file an ITS; tis could help
> back-relay stabilization.


That's the plan, but this will have to wait a bit ...

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)

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