Re: overlay "syncprov" not found

[Prentice Bisbal <prentice@ias.edu>]

Andrew Debenham wrote:
> Hello –
> 
>  
> 
> I am new to LDAP and I’m trying to setup Sync Replication on a Fedora
> Core 8 system (2.6.23.9-85.fc8).  However, when I start the LDAP
> service, I get the following error message:
> 
> Checking configuration files for slapd:                    [FAILED]
> 
> overlay "syncprov" not found
> 
> slaptest: bad configuration file!
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve searched the archived threads for this group (as well as many
> others) and wasn’t able to find any postings that matched what I’m
> seeing.  If I missed an old post by mistake, I apologize in advance. 
> I’ve included a copy of my slapd.conf file below.  The interesting thing
> is that when I comment out the following lines, LDAP will start without
> any issues:
> 
> overlay syncprov
> 
> syncprov-checkpoint 100 10
> 
> syncprov-sessionlog 100
> 
>  
> 
> This leads me to believe that the issue is with the replication process,
> but I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.  I’ve followed the examples
> given in the OpenLDAP Admin Guide, but it just doesn’t seem to want to
> work for me.  Also, in case anyone asks, here are the packages installed
> on the server in question:
> 
> openldap-2.3.39-3.fc8
> 
> openldap-devel-2.3.39-3.fc8
> 
> openldap-servers-2.3.39-3.fc8
> 
> openldap-clients-2.3.39-3.fc8
> 

On RHEL systems, the overlays are in a separate RPM,
openldap-servers-overlays:

# rpm -qa | grep openldap | sort
openldap-2.3.43-3.el5
openldap-clients-2.3.43-3.el5
openldap-servers-2.3.43-3.el5
openldap-servers-overlays-2.3.43-3.el5

Since RHEL is based on Fedora, I bet you need to install the separate
overly RPM on FC8, too

--
Prentice