Bug#378235: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#378235: slapd: slapadd gives completely useless error messages

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Friday, July 14, 2006 3:58 PM +0200 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net> 
wrote:

> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.3.24-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Behold:
>
># slapadd
> slapadd: bad configuration file!
>
> I haven't yet figured out a way for it to tell me what's bad about it.
> Neither -v nor -d seem to help.  I've tried strace but that's crazy.
> This is totally unusable.

How about trying:

"-d -1" rather than just "-d".  I advise reading the man page.  You may 
also want to use the "slaptest" binary.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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