Possible bug? - Silent install behaves differently from interactive

[Julian Kippels]

Hi,

I was playing around with silent installs and found out that the final
configuration differs from interactive installations. Here is what I
did:

I installed two servers on different machines ds-1.localdomain and
ds-2.localdomain. ds-1 is used as a master and ds-2 is supposed to use
it as its configuration server.
Both machines run RHEL 7.4 with the latest EPEL-builds of 389-ds.

First I used setup-ds-admin.pl --keepcache interactively first on ds-1
and told it not to use an existing configuration server, then on ds-2
and told it to use ds-1. When I connect to ds-1 using 389-console I can
see both ds-1 and ds-2.
Then I took the generated .inf-files, removed all traces from the
previous instances from both machines using remove-ds-admin.pl -a -f -y
and then ran setup-ds-admin.pl --silent --file=ds-1.inf and
--file=ds-2.inf respectively. When I connect to ds-1 now, I only see
ds-1, to see ds-2 I have to connect to ds-2 with 389-console.

The .inf-files look like this:
--------
$ cat ds-1.inf
[General]
AdminDomain = localdomain
ConfigDirectoryAdminID = admin
ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd = XXX
ConfigDirectoryLdapURL = ldap://ds-1.localdomain:389/o=NetscapeRoot
FullMachineName = ds-1.localdomain
ServerRoot = /usr/lib64/dirsrv
StrictHostCheck = true
SuiteSpotGroup = dirsrv
SuiteSpotUserID = dirsrv
[admin]
Port = 9830
ServerAdminID = admin
ServerAdminPwd = XXX
ServerIpAddress = 0.0.0.0
SysUser = dirsrv
[slapd]
start_server = 0
AddOrgEntries = Yes
AddSampleEntries = No
HashedRootDNPwd = XXX
InstScriptsEnabled = true
InstallLdifFile = suggest
RootDN = cn=Directory Manager
RootDNPwd = XXX
ServerIdentifier = ds-1
ServerPort = 389
SlapdConfigForMC = yes
Suffix = dc=localdomain
UseExistingMC = 0
bak_dir = /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1/bak
bindir = /usr/bin
cert_dir = /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1
config_dir = /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1
datadir = /usr/share
db_dir = /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1/db
ds_bename = userRoot
inst_dir = /usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1
ldif_dir = /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1/ldif
localstatedir = /var
lock_dir = /var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1
log_dir = /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1
naming_value = rz
run_dir = /var/run/dirsrv
sbindir = /usr/sbin
schema_dir = /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ds-1/schema
sysconfdir = /etc
tmp_dir = /tmp
--------
$ cat ds-2.inf
[General]
AdminDomain = localdomain
ConfigDirectoryAdminID = admin
ConfigDirectoryAdminPwd = XXX
ConfigDirectoryLdapURL = ldap://ds-1.localdomain:389/o=NetscapeRoot
FullMachineName = ds-2.localdomain
ServerRoot = /usr/lib64/dirsrv
StrictHostCheck = true
SuiteSpotGroup = dirsrv
SuiteSpotUserID = dirsrv
[admin]
Port = 9830
ServerAdminID = admin
ServerAdminPwd = XXX
ServerIpAddress = 0.0.0.0
SysUser = dirsrv
[slapd]
AddOrgEntries = Yes
AddSampleEntries = No
HashedRootDNPwd = XXX
InstScriptsEnabled = true
InstallLdifFile = suggest
RootDN = cn=Directory Manager
RootDNPwd = XXX
ServerIdentifier = ds-2
ServerPort = 389
Suffix = dc=localdomain
UseExistingMC = 1
bak_dir = /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2/bak
bindir = /usr/bin
cert_dir = /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2
config_dir = /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2
datadir = /usr/share
db_dir = /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2/db
ds_bename = userRoot
inst_dir = /usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2
ldif_dir = /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2/ldif
localstatedir = /var
lock_dir = /var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2
log_dir = /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2
naming_value = rz
run_dir = /var/run/dirsrv
sbindir = /usr/sbin
schema_dir = /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ds-2/schema
sysconfdir = /etc
tmp_dir = /tmp

I think this unintended behaviour and should be fixed. Unless I did a
mistake somewhere, but I can't see where…

Julian