On 05 May 2014, at 5:52 PM, David Boreham <david_list@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you importing an ldif file with the right content for replica initialization ? (the error message suggests not). The command line I used on servera was this: /usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-servera/db2ldif.pl -v -r -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w - -n userRoot -a /tmp/replica.ldif The command line I used on serverc was this: /usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-serverc/ldif2db.pl -v -D "cn=Directory Manager" -j /etc/dirsrv/slapd-serverc.secret -n userRoot -i /tmp/replica.ldif The log on serverc looked like this: [05/May/2014:17:34:41 +0200] - import userRoot: Beginning import job... [05/May/2014:17:34:41 +0200] - import userRoot: Index buffering enabled with bucket size 19 [05/May/2014:17:34:41 +0200] - import userRoot: Processing file "/tmp/replica.ldif" [05/May/2014:17:34:41 +0200] - import userRoot: WARNING: Skipping entry "nsuniqueid=ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff,o=Foo,c=ZA" which has no parent, ending at line 18 of file "/tmp/replica.ldif" [05/May/2014:17:34:57 +0200] - import userRoot: Finished scanning file "/tmp/replica.ldif" (62931 entries) [05/May/2014:17:34:58 +0200] - import userRoot: Workers finished; cleaning up... [05/May/2014:17:34:58 +0200] - import userRoot: Workers cleaned up. [05/May/2014:17:34:58 +0200] - import userRoot: Cleaning up producer thread... [05/May/2014:17:34:58 +0200] - import userRoot: Indexing complete. Post-processing... [05/May/2014:17:34:58 +0200] - import userRoot: Generating numSubordinates complete. [05/May/2014:17:34:58 +0200] - import userRoot: Flushing caches... [05/May/2014:17:34:58 +0200] - import userRoot: Closing files... [05/May/2014:17:34:59 +0200] - import userRoot: Import complete. Processed 62931 entries (1 were skipped) in 18 seconds. (3496.17 entries/sec) No idea why the "skipped entry", the root DSE existed at the time of the import and so there was a parent. > The documentation on this page covers the initialization of a replica by ldif : > https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.2/html/Administration_Guide/Managing_Replication-Initializing_Consumers.html Those were the docs that I followed. Regards, Graham -- -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users