abartlet@samba.org wrote:

Full_Name: Andrew Bartlett Version: CVS HEAD OS: Fedora 10 URL: Submission from: (NULL) (59.167.251.137)

When running slaptest to convert between slapd.conf and slapd.d format configuration, before the databases exist, the slaptest returns with an non-zero error code and prints warnings.

If I add -u to the command line, then it does not perform the conversion.

In Samba4's provision system, I wish to run using cn=config from the very start, and so wish to do the conversion before the databases are created.

I had expected -u to quiet the warnings, but it was unexpected that it would also not perform the conversion. (I understand it is also considered a 'dry run' parameter).

Can I have a new parameter added to allow a behaviour of 'do the conversion, don't check the database vaildity'?

I've gone a slightly different route, but it will give the same effect. Now if you run slaptest with '-n databasenumber' it will only open that specific database (and test it) instead of trying to open all databases. So for your case, just add '-n 0' and it will be fine.