I have a "dumpuser" script that would dump an LDAP user entry. Recently, we've added some new data which is binary and as a result, sometimes my shell crashes when I try to dump a user.
I may not be taking the right approach to this, but I decided after reading the docs that the right thing to do is use LDAP::LDIF to generate a customized printout to a file, then print the file contents. If there's a better way, please let me know. So I ran the modified script but I get this error: Can't locate object method "write_entry" via package "Net::LDAP::LDIF" Here's most of the full code: use ldaputils #my ldap management utility use Net::LDAP::LDIF; my $user = "rglasser"; my $file = "./foo"; my $ldap = getldap(); # runs ldap open routine my $mesg = $ldap->search ( ... ); # parameters include passing the # username (search routine is known to # work from previous version) my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($file, "w", onerror => 'die'); foreach my $entry($mesg->all_entries) { $ldif->write_entry($entry); } $ldif->done(); As I said before, it generates a failure on the line with write_entry. I checked the $ldif handle and it does correctly contain a Net::LDAP::LDIF object. Can anyone shed some light on this matter?