Of course its not empty, this is a production directory. It shouldn't have to be empty to add entries! I don't know what caused this. The cn of the entry I was adding was NOT in the directory although it had been previously and then deleted. As you can see below it not anywhere in the output from slapcat. If I changed the cn I could add it successfully so maybe its a bug when an entry is deleted and then re-added? I don't know. To get around it I basically re-created my directory by running this command: slapcat |grep -v entryUUID|grep -v creatorsName|grep -v createTimestamp|grep -v entryCSN|grep -v modifiersName|grep -v modifyTimestamp >> clean.ldif Which creates a new ldif file without all the above fields, then I used ldapadd to add it to an emtpy directory. After that everything was fine and I could add my users with no troubles. Cheers Max
>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20/03/2006 5:30 p.m. >>> --On Monday, March 20, 2006 4:13 PM +1200 max williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am using slapd 2.2.23 and I'm trying to add a couple of users to the > directory but it fails like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]# ldapadd -f > tmp.ldif -x -D cn=root,dc=cave,dc=alliedtelesyn,dc=co,dc=nz -WEnter LDAP > Password:adding new entry "cn=Frank > Wei,ou=People,dc=cave,dc=alliedtelesyn,dc=co,dc=nz"ldap_add: Already > exists (68) So I thought well perhaps its already in the directory but > there is no "Frank" from slapcat at all: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]# slapcat|grep Frank > [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]# Are you sure the database you are adding *to* is empty? > So I check the ldap logs and there is this entry: > Mar 20 15:12:26 destroyo slapd[6854]: => bdb_dn2id_add: put failed: > DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already exists -30996I can browse my directory > with a gui and this entry is not present. I've never run into this error > before.What causes this and what does it mean?TIA Max It means the data already exists in the database. You probably didn't delete everything that was already there. --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Developer ITS/Shared Application Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs.
