deleting schema elements from cn=config

[Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu>]

Hi,

I'm trying to understand how to delete a schema element.  I'm running slapd 2.4.23 on FreeBSD 8.1.  When I try to run ldapdelete:

ldapdelete -H ldap://localhost -D uid=tjg,cn=config -W -x 'cn={7}java,cn=schema,cn=config'

I get the following in the log file:

----------
daemon: read activity on 18
daemon: select: listen=6 active_threads=0 tvp=zero
connection_get(18)
connection_get(18): got connid=1068
connection_read(18): checking for input on id=1068
op tag 0x4a, time 1296090324
conn=1068 op=1 do_delete
>>> dnPrettyNormal: <cn={7}java,cn=schema,cn=config>
daemon: activity on 1 descriptor
<<< dnPrettyNormal: <cn={7}java,cn=schema,cn=config>, <cn={7}java,cn=schema,cn=config>
conn=1068 op=1 DEL dn="cn={7}java,cn=schema,cn=config"
send_ldap_result: conn=1068 op=1 p=3
send_ldap_result: err=53 matched="" text=""
send_ldap_response: msgid=2 tag=107 err=53
daemon: waked
daemon: select: listen=6 active_threads=0 tvp=zero
conn=1068 op=1 RESULT tag=107 err=53 text=
daemon: activity on 1 descriptor
daemon: activity on:
 18r
----------

cn={7}java,cn=schema,cn=config is empty; I've already deleted all the objectClass and attribute definitions from it, but now it seems I can't delete the schema entry itself.  What am I doing wrong?

Tim Gustafson
Baskin School of Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
tjg@soe.ucsc.edu
831-459-5354