Re: meta backend olc?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Marc Patermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while migrating servers form 2.3.x to 2.4.x I stumbled upon this with
> openldap2-2.4.20-0.4.29 SLES11SP1.
> When I try online config based on my slapd.conf file, I get an error
>
> # slaptest -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d -u
> config file testing succeeded
>
> fine so far.
>
> # slaptest -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d
> WARNING: No dynamic config support for database meta.
> WARNING: No dynamic config support for database meta.
>
> WARNING: The converted cn=config directory is incomplete and may not work.
> ...
>
> cn=config # cat olcDatabase={1}meta.ldif
>
> dn: olcDatabase={1}meta

> There is no URI or any meta specific attribute here.

Of course not, because it is not supported. Does your question indicate that 
the above warning messages are not clear enough? How can we make them clearer?

> from slapd.conf:
>
> database        meta
> suffix          "ou=AllgV,ou=foo"
> uri             "ldap://server/ou=AllgV,ou=foo";
> suffixmassage   "ou=AllgV,ou=foo" "ou=allgv,ou=proxy,o=bar"
> conn-ttl 30
> idle-timeout 1m30s
> subordinate
>
> Is there something wrong with my config or does meta not work with olc?
>
> According to the mail from p.
> http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Documentation?expression=meta;download=Documentation/6277.followup.1.eml
> it seems to be "not me".
> Whereas Howard replied: "All of the core overlays now support
> cn=config."
> http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Documentation?id=6277;expression=meta#themesg

Exactly so. meta is a backend, not an overlay, and I specifcally said overlays.

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