Re: High availability

["Taymour A. El Erian" <taymour.elerian@tedata.net>]

Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> Taymour A. El Erian skrev, on 16-08-2007 15:24:
>
> [...]
>
> > Would you happen to have any documentation on how to implement 
> > chaining ?
>
> If you've built from source (Buchan's srpm or whatever) and have a 
> build directory from a successful build, go to $DIR/tests, run './run 
> test032-chain'; when it's done, got to ./testrun and look at both 
> slapd.?.conf; that should give you a basic idea, together with the 
> rest there.
I always get this error

Could not locate slapd(8)

I checked the code and this happens because of the following check

if test ! -x /usr/sbin/.3 ; then


> However, I broke my own chain slapd config file on the relevant 
> (Samba) slave server and my shell scripts which I use for master 
> updates etc. kept getting referral errors, even with the above 
> configs. I spent "a good time" on this and finally got it working 
> again with the following:
>
> overlay chain
> chain-uri               ldaps://ldap.master/
> chain-idassert-bind     bindmethod=simple
>                         binddn="cn=proxy,dc=school,dc=nl"
>                         credentials=Wh4t3v3r
>                         mode=self
>                         flags=non-prescriptive
>
> I was using digest-md5 SASL binding and ldap with starttls, which I 
> always use for all replication etc., but that was what was breaking 
> chaining - no idea why.
>
> This is OL 2.3.37, BTW.
>
> HTH,
>
> --Tonni


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