RE: overlay "syncprov" not found

[Andrew Debenham <adebenham@sotech1.com>]

Jaap -

Thank you so much for your help - removing the white space before the moduleload commands did the trick!  I really should have noticed that but I think I was focusing too much on the error message and not on the simple things.  Also, I wasn't aware that slapd was that picky about its configuration file; I'll keep that in mind the next time I edit this file.  Thanks again for your help and the quick response!

- Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: Jaap Winius [mailto:jwinius@umrk.nl]
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 4:00 PM
To: openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: overlay "syncprov" not found

Quoting Andrew Debenham <adebenham@sotech1.com>:

> Checking configuration files for slapd:                    [FAILED]
> overlay "syncprov" not found
> slaptest: bad configuration file!

As you probably already know, the syncprov module needs to be loaded
*before* the syncprov overlay is invoked. From your config file, it
looks like you understand that, but the error suggests that the module
is not being loaded anyway. I think I see why:

> # moduleload retcode.la
> # moduleload rwm.la
>  moduleload syncprov.la
> # moduleload translucent.la

It's that leading space on the line that loads the syncprov module:
remove it. Unlike many other types of config files, in slapd.conf
lines with leading spaces are seen as continuations of previous lines.
So, since the line above it is a comment, with that leading space
there your instruction to load the syncprov module is still commented
out.

Cheers,

Jaap


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