Re: syncprov and translucent

["Gavin Henry" <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

<quote who="Andy Cobaugh">
>
> As one might expect, mixing the translucent and syncprov overlays together
> on top of the same bdb database doesn't work. Because translucent uses
> back-ldap, lastmod is being set to off, while syncprov needs it to be on
> in order to function.

What's the big picture here?

>
> I wonder if it might be possible to change the behavior of back-ldap to
> allow lastmod again? In my case, I only care about replicating changes
> that are stored in the local bdb database by the translucent overlay, and
> I never send updates back to the target ldap server.
>
> I suppose I could come up with something where I slapcat, then let the
> slaves pick up the ldif and see if it's different from the last time. If
> it is, shutdown slapd, delete the database files, slapadd, start slapd.
>
> I really want to avoid doing that though, since I consider that a hack and
> a half.
>
> Thoughts? Is enabling lastmod for back-ldap just a matter of commenting
> out some lines?

No, it's check for in and set to off in various peices of source code.

Gavin.

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