Re: determining what schema are loaded

[Brendan Kearney <bpk678@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 13:55 -0500, chris c wrote:
> I've been tasked with adding a mail attribute for an openldap 2.4.23
> installation. I've read enough of the entries on the mailing list that
> talk about the inability to do so being related to the proper schema
> not being loaded, and I think that is the issue.
> 
> 
> What I'm struggling with, is how to determine what schema are loaded
> and where they are loaded from? In reading the Redhat documentation,
> they reference 
> 
> Required attributes are specified using the objectClass definition,
> and can be found in schema files located in
> the /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/cn=schema/directory.
> 
> 
> So does this mean that in the above referenced directory, those schema
> will be loaded?
> 

using the below, you can search the config database of the directory,
looking for the objectClass for the different schemas, and have the
distinguishedName of each returned.

ldapsearch -LLL -b cn=config objectClass=olcSchemaConfig dn

the directory you indicate will have the schemas in the ldif files, yes.
i think the ldapsearch will be quicker and easier.