The wonderful things about wibbles….

An interesting weekend to say the least. Cardiff City (boo hiss!) won their playoff in Cardiff, as did Bournemouth and Wolves. Nice to see Wolves finally back in the top flight – it’s scary to realise that I remember the last time they were there (though I seem to recall in their last, disastrous season in the old division one they managed to beat Liverpool, who were good in those days, 1-0).

Today I got the completion notice letter – this means things are afoot, and I have to spend the next few days chasing people for all sorts of things.

Actually thats not entirely fair. I’ve been spending sometime trying to make OpenLDAP work with replication – I had a serious go a few months ago, but ending up giving up because other stuff got in the way.

Turns out the reason is annoyingly simple. I was using slapcat and slapadd to create the slave. As it turns out, slapadd (naturally enough) creates the files as root. OpenLDAP under RedHat runs as user ldap, not root (this is good). But it can’t read the files.

Best solution is to change the ownership of the files. Of course, it would be nice if OpenLDAP actually told you that, instead of leaving you to work it out for yourself, but it’s now working fine.

The other thing you should do is ensure the DN you’re using for binding as the replicator exists in the directory that you import with slapadd. Otherwise, you’re not going to be able to bind to the slave from the master.

I seem to have got a fair bit of feedback on my quake analogy. None the less – its still valid.

On a slightly more interesting post, I see the collective have decided to lay off more staff. Thank God I’ve been liberated.

Heading off to Kerry this evening for a stag weekend with Pron. We had a discussion about quake on the train (which rather assumes the existance of power sockets on the train).

Ended the conversation about the requirement for a mouse to play quake with the line “I can’t play quake without a mouse – it’s like sex without a woman”