Hi Rich, On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: > Christopher Waltham wrote: >> I'm having a little trouble creating a simple, master/slave >> replication configuring using FDS 1.1.3. I'm following the Red Hat >> documentation here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/8.0/Creating_the_Supplier_Bind_DN_Entry.html >> but am having trouble creating the supplier bind DN. >> >> This is what I'm appending to /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ldap/dse.ldif: >> >> dn: cn=replication manager,cn=config >> objectClass: inetorgperson >> objectClass: person >> objectClass: top >> cn: replication manager >> sn: RM >> userPassword: secretPassword >> passwordExpirationTime: 20380119031407Z >> >> However, as soon as I start the directory server back up, the >> changes I made to dse.ldif disappear. Am I missing something? > Yes. You cannot edit dse.ldif while the server is running. If you > really want to edit dse.ldif, you must shutdown the server first. > > If you did stop the server first, make sure there is a blank line > before dn: cn=replication manager,cn=config - a blank line is the > entry delimiter in LDIF - if there is no blank line, the server may > just report a warning to the error log and continue. I definitely shut down the server first, and I thought I did have a blank line preceding the entry. Let me look again and see what's happening, in the end I just used the console :-) Chris > > > But you do not have to do that - you can just use ldapmodify -a to > add this entry while the server is running >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> Chris
