Hey Quanah,

Thank you very much for the debugging tip! -- Using it I got further in. Now I get an error "<= str2entry: str2ad(UR1): attribute type undefined". I must be setting my external variables (such as UR1) incorrectly in my LDIF file. What is the correct syntax for setting them, please? I tried each of the following sentences, none of which worked: URI1: ldap://host1.hq.mycompany.com:389/ URI1: ldap://host1.hq.mycompany.com:389 URI1: "ldap://host1.hq.mycompany.com:389/" URI1="ldap://host1.hq.mycompany.com:389/" URI1="ldap://host1.hq.mycompany.com:389" URI1 ldap://host1.hq.mycompany.com:389/

This is the command I execute (after removing all contents from slapd.d): slapadd -d -1 -v -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d -n 0 -l /etc/openldap/nwaymmr.ldif >& output.txt

For completeness I've attached my LDIF file "nwaymmr.ldif" and the output "output.txt" utilizing the first line above.

Thank you very much, in advance.

Fal

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.comwrote:

--On Saturday, December 29, 2012 9:01 AM -0800 fal patel < fal0patel@gmail.com> wrote:

(3) Where It's Failing:

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================= I first executed the following:

slapadd -v -F /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.**d -b bdb -l mmr.ldif

This is nonsensical. You are adding a cn=config DB. Thus you cannot use a base of "bdb". Remember that -b is the suffix you are adding (in this case, cn=config). Not the database type.

So I suppose I must create the database beforehand?

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No. But the directory (/usr/local/etc/openldap/**slapd.d) must exist before slapadd will work.

I would suggest you run:

slapadd -d -1 -v -F /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.**d -n 0 -l mmr.ldif

So you can see exactly why it is failing. My guess is you didn't create the directory.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc.

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