On 7/19/07, Maria McKinley parody@u.washington.edu wrote:
On 7/19/07, matthew sporleder msporleder@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/19/07, Maria McKinley parody@u.washington.edu wrote:
On 7/19/07, John Drescher drescherjm@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/18/07, Maria McKinley parody@u.washington.edu wrote:
Hi there,
I am trying to move my ldap to a new machine to upgrade from openldap2.2 to openldap2.3. I moved all of my config files and created new certificates, but I am having difficulties. I am running on Debian, and if I start slapd by /etc/init.d/slapd start, I get:
Did you export the database with slapcat and reimport it with slapadd?
Here are the instructions I use (taken from a local wiki):
Export the ldap database to an ldif file
This is done using slapcat.
[root@ldap1 root]# slapcat > /home/Administrator/ldap1.20061006.ldif
Stop the destination ldap server
sysserv0 ~ # /etc/init.d/slapd stop
Backup the old ldap database folder
We can use tar here.
sysserv0 ~ # tar cjf slapd.tar.bz2 /var/lib/openldap-data/
Prepare the ldap folder
sysserv0 ~ # rm /var/lib/openldap-data/* sysserv0 ~ # tar xjf /root/slapd.tar.bz2 var/lib/openldap-data/DB_CONFIG
I don't get this. You tar the entire openldap-data folder, but then empty it into a new directory called DB_CONFIG? This step I was not doing, so it must be what is wrong, but it doesn't make sense to me.
tar xf file.tar named_file will extract named_file FROM file.tar.
It's another way of saying "backup & restore your DB_CONFIG file." http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?_highlightWords=db_config&file=107... http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?_highlightWords=db_config&file=107...
I see, I should have read the tar error message more carefully. I have no DB_CONFIG file in my old database, so I think this can't be the problem unless the new version of ldap requires it.
It's not required, just recommended. Since /etc/init.d/slapd is not shipped with openldap, there's really no way to tell on this list why it isn't working. If openldap is working when you start it manually, then it's a problem with that script and not with openldap. Try searching for links on shell scripting and troubleshooting.