Thanks Craig, Do you have multiple secondary LDAPs using slurpd? Its is pushing or pulling? I may just use that. - Brian On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:36 -0700, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: >> Hi, >> >> From what I gather, OpenLDAP on Centos 5.x pulls LDAP changes from >> central LDAP server to a secondary LDAP server. >> >> So in other words, you can have your second LDAP server pull the db >> based on either; >> >> type=refreshOnly >> >> which mean the pull interval will happen when ever you specify or; >> >> type=refreshAndPersist >> >> which mean after a pull, keep the pipe open for any changes made. >> >> Now in Ubuntu one can have there primary LDAP push the changes to all >> the secondaries. >> >> Can I somehow enable push in Centos OpenLDAP because pull seems >> pretty >> lame in this case. >> >> I tried but to no avail. >> >> Hope the answer isn't "Son, thats just the way it iz". > ---- > my reading of syncrepl matches your understanding but I'm still using > slurpd so what do I know. > > You should know that the philosophy of OpenLDAP software developers is > that if you actually want to run an OpenLDAP server using newer edge > features (and syncrepl is surely one of them), then you should be > building the latest from source and not relying on distribution > packages > which exist mostly for providing ldap libraries for other software. > There was a recent discussion about this very topic because > Debian/Ubuntu is using a 2.4 version that is also out of date and very > buggy where syncrepl is concerned. Obviously CentOS is using 2.3.43 > which is considered out of date by OpenLDAP software developers. > > Craig > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos