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My apologies for writing to the wrong list. > > On one of the databases I only want to replicate certain entries, filtered > > by > > objectclass. I use syncrepl for replication. > > This is possible by setting a filter in your syncrepl-statement. But you have > to take care whether superior entries of replicated entries are also covered > by your filter. I set up replication with that filter and it is working as wanted. The superior entries exist already and should not be deleted of course. > > Now I would like to write > > entries, which are not covered by the filter and so are not replicated. But > > Openldap sends me a referral to the master on write attempts if I use the > > updateref directive. If I don't use this directive, I get error 53: > > unwilling > > to perform. > It seems you're writing to the consumer in a single-master environment where > the consumer is read-only. Why not simply write to the provider? Yes, it's a single-master environment. Provider and consumer have partly different data for non-replicated entries there. > > Is there a way to have part of a databases entries to be replicated and > > others > > being allowed to write locally? > Why do you want that? Because provider and consumer are installed on different hosts and some entries are based on the local hostname there. > Maybe you want to use something like slapo-translucent(5). >From a quick look into that it may be a solution for me. Thank you, Michael! Sorry again for having sent the original question here. Kind regards, Michael
