Hello, Thanks for your response. I did a search for the exact line on Google and I got many links for e.g.
http://www.linux.com/howtos/LDAP-HOWTO/ldapbackends.shtml http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO.html http://ldp.rtin.bz/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO/ldapbackends.html and so on. Anyways, but as you said it is actually talking of slapadd utility. So Does that mean if I have a LDIF file somehow along with a BDB database on my Host1, I would actually be able to get my data from the LDIF file out into my BDB database directly if I only download this slapadd utility. The concern is that my Host1 would not like to have other open LDAP stuff as such as it would consume the disk space on Host1 that in no way currently needs any LDAP functionality as such. But because I have an LDIF file and I have to get that LDIF data into my BDB database without much footprint size increase so I am trying to look for some small size options available. Please suggest, - Thanks, Meenakshi -----Original Message----- From: Pierangelo Masarati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 12:33 AM To: Meenakshi Vohra Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: query on LDIF to BDB format Meenakshi Vohra wrote: >Hello, > >If someone could help with this query of mine it would really help. > >I keep reading this line all over the internet "The LDAP software >package you're going to get comes with an utility to convert LDIF files >to the BDB format". > > That sentence is partially incorrect; it should read "The LDAP software package you're going to get comes with an utility to convert LDIF files to the BDB __backend__ format" Can you point to the source? >I would like to know if the BDB format being mentioned here is the >actual BDB data (text file) format that BDB dump db_dump and BDB load >db_load utilities expect or is this something specific to LDAP or does >it automatically creates the BDB database reading this LDIF format file. >If so how does it create the secondary indexes in BDB. > >Also how big is this utility and what is it called ? > > > The utility is slapadd. See slapadd(8) and the Admin Guide for details. p. SysNet - via Dossi,8 27100 Pavia Tel: +390382573859 Fax: +390382476497
