John Oliver wrote: > One of the projects on my plate is to have a working backup of an > existing fedora-ds server. I installed fedora-ds under CentOS 5.2 and > copied over the files that result from ns-slapd db2archive from the > existing server to the new machine. > > First off, I know nothing about LDAP or fedora-ds in particular :-) > > After looking at the existing server and what I had after installing on > the new server, I decided that running /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl was > probably necessary. I went through, answering the questions as best I > could (and figuring that the answers would be overwritten when I > restored the backup). I got this: > > [08/07/10:10:18:52] - [Setup] Info Are you ready to set up your servers? > [08/07/10:10:18:56] - [Setup] Info yes > [08/07/10:10:18:56] - [Setup] Info Creating directory server . . . > [08/07/10:10:18:59] - [Setup] Info Your new DS instance 'unix-services2' > was suc > cessfully created. > [08/07/10:10:18:59] - [Setup] Info Creating the configuration directory > server . > . . > [08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Error: failed to open an LDAP > connection to > host 'unix-services2.my.domain.com.com' port '389' as user > 'cn=Directory Ma > nager'. Error: unknown. > [08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Failed to create the configuration > directory > server > [08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Exiting . . . > Log file is '/tmp/setupVSpvCl.log > > > Yes, that's two ".com"s No idea why. > Check /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf, and check that against what you typed in as your hostname and what DNS resolves it to. > So, I stop the dirsrv process and try: > > [root at localhost ~]# ns-slapd archive2db -D > /etc/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2 -a > /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/in > [10/Jul/2008:11:05:39 -0700] - ERROR: target server has no NetscapeRoot > configured > [10/Jul/2008:11:05:39 -0700] - archive2db: Failed to read backup file > set. Either the directory specified doesn't exist, or it exists but > doesn't contain a valid backup set, or file permissions prevent the > server reading the backup set. error=53 (Invalid request descriptor) > Don't use ns-slapd archive2db directly - use the scripts in /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance (db2bak, bak2db, etc.) instead. > > I have no idea what a NetscapeRoot is, why I would want one, or how I'd > get it. Googling didn't help me... I found many references to "-0 > netscaperoot", but that seems to be in reference to > /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/adm.conf which does not exist on my new server. > > What is the easiest way for me to do this? Can I simply copy adm.conf > (and other files? Which ones?) from the existing server? Or is there > some mysterious problem about why the setup script couldn't contact the > LDAP server which is to blame? > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3258 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20080710/639d2264/attachment.bin
