Thanks Ralf,

slapadd -F <empty/slapd.d/directory> -bcn=config -l <ldiffile>

That works to recover the db, but I would like to also use slapadd also to configure from scratch rather than editing files (and frankly I'm getting mad).

Basic question : what would be the ldif file and slapadd command to be executed to modify let say "olcSuffix" and "olcRootDN" from the default to what I want, for example:

olcSuffix: dc=nom,dc=fr olcRootDN: cn=Manager,dc=nom,dc=fr

Thanks,

--- Olivier

Note:

Here is an extract thart I get from a fresh ldap2.4 install, here is what I get in the ldap file generated by this : "slapcat -b 'cn=config' > ldif"

dn: olcDatabase={1}bdb,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig objectClass: olcBdbConfig olcDatabase: {1}bdb olcSuffix: dc=my-domain,dc=com olcAddContentAcl: FALSE olcLastMod: TRUE olcMaxDerefDepth: 15 olcReadOnly: FALSE olcRootDN: cn=Manager,dc=my-domain,dc=com

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Ralf Haferkamp rhafer@suse.de wrote:

On Tuesday 21 September 2010 13:55:08 Torsten Schlabach (Tascel eG) wrote:

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Hi Howard!

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Exactly the same way as you slapcat'd it.

I don't actually understand ... ??

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What was the exact command line you used for slapcat?

slapcat -b 'cn=config'

Then try:

slapadd -F <empty/slapd.d/directory> -bcn=config -l <ldiffile>

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Regards, Torsten

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-- Ralf

-- Olivier