[Fedora-directory-users] fds 1.1+ not setting nsslapd-instancedir on install?

[Rich Megginson]

Ryan Braun [ADS] wrote:
> Hey guys.  I have some perl replication scripts (fdstool) that I developed on 
> fds 1.0.4.  On my first attempt to use them on a 1.1+ (in this particular 
> case 1.1.2),  the changelog object creation bails because the 
> nsslapd-instancedir attribute in cn=config isn't set.
>
> 	##############################
> 	# find the instance-dir
> 	##############################
> 	$msg = $ldap->search (
>                           base    => "cn=config",
>                           scope   => "base",
>                           filter  => "(objectClass=*)",
>                          );
> 	my $instance_dir = $msg->entry(0)->get_value("nsslapd-instancedir");
>
> ends up as null as there isn't anything at said attribute.
>
> Also,
>
> shodan:/home/ryan/fdstools# ldapsearch -x -h yzxXXXX0 -D "cn=Directory 
> Manager" -W -b "cn=config" "objectclass=*"|grep instancedir
> Enter LDAP Password:
> nsslapd-instancedir:
> shodan:/home/ryan/fdstools# ldapsearch -x -h yzxXXXX0 -D "cn=Directory 
> Manager" -W -b "cn=config" "objectclass=*"|grep nsslapd-ldifdir
> Enter LDAP Password:
> nsslapd-ldifdir: /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-yzxdmns0/ldif
>
>
> For now I'm useing nsslapd-ldifdir and just ~ s/\/ldif// to cut off the ldir 
> directory,  but am just confirming this behavior is intended.  FWIW I built 
> the packages myself,  so it could very well be my own fault :P
>   
Well, it depends - what were you using nsslapd-instancedir for?  There 
are several other attributes you could use now, depending on what you're 
trying to do.
> Ryan
>
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