[389-users] problem with mmr.pl script

[Del]

Hi all,

There is a problem I'm getting (and I've seen it reported elsewhere on 
the mailing list) with mmr.pl as described on this page:

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:MultiMasterReplication

When running the script I get the error:

failed to add changelog entry: failed to start changelog; error - 8 at 
./mmr.pl line 253, <DATA> line 342.

The solution is to create the changelog entries manually as per the 
instructions on this page:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/8.0/Managing_Replication-Configuring_Multi_Master_Replication.html
(Section 8.5.1 just the first part).

... then to re-run the mmr.pl script.  It will issue a minor complaint 
about the changelogs already existing but otherwise it will work.

I am not sure but I think "8" in the mmr.pl error message seems to 
relate to standard LDAP error code 8 which is "Strong authentication 
required".  So for some reason despite me not having SSL enabled on my 
directory server (this is an entirely internal deployment) it seems to 
want me to have SSL authentication or other strong authentication to 
create the changelog entries.

I have done an LDIF export of cn=config before and after manually 
creating the changelog entries in the directory using the console and 
diffed these, and the entries created seem to be exactly the same as 
those that should be created in the mmr.pl script, so I'm not otherwise 
sure why the mmr.pl script should be failing to create these entries.

This is with Fedora Directory Server 1.2.0 on RHEL 5.3.

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Del
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