[Kroupware] alias question

[Dieter Kluenter]

Hi Wim,

Wim Bakker <wim at speed.planet.nl> writes:

> On Tuesday 20 May 2003 17:46, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
>
>> You have to configure slurpd to update the slave server, and you have
>> to run a slave server aka replica as well. Slurpd gets its
>> configration parameters from slapd, but don't forget that slurpd is a
>> client to slapd, not a server application.
>> See man (5) slapd.conf and man (5) slapd.replog
>> and http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin21/
>>
>> -Dieter
> I don't understand this, shouldn't this happen automatically.
> I thought the whole kolab server was about a preconfigured
> system that handles all these tasks? Does this basically mean that
> I can't be sure that when I update usersettings in the
> webinterface , they get applied to the ldap database?
> And this allso doesn't explain why sometimes an alias 
> get applied correctly and sometimes not, when added in the
> webinterface.

You have to distinguish between database update, that is adding and
deleting entries to the directory database, and updating to slave
servers, which keep the same database in the Directory Information
Tree (DIT).

Slapd is the daemon who runs the a local directory server, slurpd is a
client who gets notified when an update to slaves is due. As you do
not have a slave, as I presume, you should not start slurpd at all,
thus no information is given into replog.
If you just want to add, modify or delete entries of your local DIT,
that should be done imediately and with no additional interaction of
an administrator, depending on the servers load it may take a few
seconds to a few minutes ( but I doubt that you would reach such a
high load).

Change in /kolab/etc/kolab/slapd.conf.template the value for loglevel
to '7' openldap then logs to syslog.
Furthermore you could try manually wether your datebase has been
updated by using the tool ldapsearch

ldapsearch -x -D "your.root.dn" -W -b "your.directory,base" -s sub
dn=<your new entry> 

Just another way would be to use the gtk based tool 'GQ' ar the java
based tool 'ldapbrowser'. with such a tool you can browse your
directory tree and administer your server.
A more initiated would probabely create a *.ldif file and add entries
with ldapadd or slapadd.

-Dieter

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