slurpd is a push technology and yes, I have multiple 'slaves' on slurpd. Craig On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 11:50 -0700, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > 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 Debian/Ubuntu is using a 2.4 version that is also out of date and very 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 which is considered out of date by OpenLDAP software developers.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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.