Most ldapseach command line tools have a -c Continuous operation mode. Errors are reported, but ldapsearch will continue with searches. The default is to exit after reporting an error. Only useful in conjunction with -f.
-- -jim Jim Willeke On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Mihamina RKTMB <miham...@rktmb.org> wrote: > Hi, > > For several reasons, we have to often re-import our directory (OpenLDAP). > > This is because we encoutered a bug that a reimport solves. We're stuck on > this for the moment. > > Reimporting is done with Apache directory Studio by > - exporting the tree to ldif > - importing the exported ldif (overwriting existing entries) > > As far as I do it, I woul like to make it through command line, on the > primary directory itself (not from remote). > > The exported ldif is quite the same as a "ldapsearch" bare result. No > problem there. > > The problem is how to script the importing part. > - just "ldapmodify -f exported.ldif" lead to errors because of already > existing entries > - spliting the export to per-dn files would be possible, but still need to > insert the "changetype" + "replace" statements in ldif. > > So, > Would you know a scripted way to import as Studio would? >
