Re: Some openldap 2.4 questions

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com <mailto:hyc@symas.com>> wrote: Radosław Antoniuk wrote: > Hi, > > Three quick issues about slapd 2.4. > > 1. I'm setting up a syncrepl replication. In the process of testing, I had > added three syncprov overlays instead of one, and I ended up with: > The thing is, that I cannot delete any of them because cn=config does not > support delete operation. > Is this ok to leave it as is? or any workaround to get rid of the unwanted ones? Since it's just a test installation, your best action is to delete it all and start over with the correct LDIF. > 2. About N-Way replication... What's the best authentication to use? Because > (1) RootDN is the admin, and (2) in simple authentication I would store cleartext > password in the syncrepl configuration, I'm assuming that (3) the best here would > be to use some SASL mech? What do any of these 3 points have to do with each other, let alone with N-way replication? > 3. Assuming a running normal replication(master-slave) with refreshAndPersist, > is there any method of checking of the status of the replication? like show > slave status in MySQL. I have tested it with cutting the transmission by > iptables, and ok, it caught up after reconnection, but the master did not > complain at all when the connection was not there... If you had read the docs http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/replication.html you wouldn't need to ask such questions. Hello, None of the answers was valid actually. If I could start all over, I wouldn't ask, right? What it has to do ? It has to do the fact that in this kind of replication you are replicating cn=config as well, which usually in other kinds is not the case. And yes, I read the link you mentioned, hint: the word "status" shows up there three times in one sentence that does *not* mention anything about external checking of LDAP replication status. Ergo, if you don't want to help, don't frustrate the asker :)