Re: reg OpenLdap installation

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007, shilpa muramkar wrote:
> I have installed openldap on my machine. In the slapd.conf file i have
> included all the schema files. I need to import our directory server data
> into OpenLdap now. Hence i have done the below things....
> 1) Created a schema file containing our data and included it in the
> slapd.conf.
> 2) Created an ldif file, and tried importing our data using "ldapmodify"
> command.
>
> I am facing few problems.
>
> Looks like my schema file isnt being referred by openldap as....even when i
> comment my schema file and run, the service is starting.

Removing a schema file, and having the service start is no indication that the 
schema file was not in use before.

Rather, do a search on the schema available on your LDAP server, to see what 
schemas it *has* loaded when you have configured it to load this schema. 
Alternatively, use a schema-aware GUI tool (such as luma).

> That shows my 
> schema file isnt creating any impact there.

What impact were you expecting? How did you check for this impact?

(and no, failure to start is not a reasonable impact for removing an arbitrary 
schema file from the configuration file)

>
> What i did is,,,,,i took some of our required ObjectClasses and included
> them in the "misc.schema" file of OpenLdap just for a trial. Few of them
> worked properly and my data from ldif got added into the server.
> I still have few attributes and ObjectClasses which i am neither able to
> add into any of OpenLdap's schema files nor create a new schema file and
> add( as OpenLdap isnt referring to it).

Please, post some real error messages, as your interpretation of the effects 
doesn't seem to add up.

> Can someone guide me as to how to easily get my schema and data added to
> the server.

The OpenLDAP Admin guide covers this in sufficient detail IMHO. If you don't 
succeed, you should provide sufficient details of what you have done, and 
error messages and relevant log file extracts which detail the errors you are 
seeing.

> If i have to create a schema file of my own.....in that case..how do i make
> the server refer to that as well...........

You just add an include statement for your schema file in slapd.conf, as 
covered in the documentation ...