>-----Original Message----- >From: Jonathan Clarke [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:56 AM >To: Seger, Mark >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: a newbie trying to get the basics of syncrepl going > >On 25/02/2010 13:42, Seger, Mark wrote: >>>> "With syncrepl, a consumer server can create a replica without >>>> changing provider's configurations and without restarting the >>>> provider server, if the consumer server has appropriate access >>>> privileges for the DIT fragment to be replicated. The consumer >>>> server can stop the replication also without the need for >>>> provider-side changes and restart." >>> >>> This means that you can add consumer servers to an existing >>> architecture without having to modify the master's configuration to >>> add each one (this was not the case with the previous replication >>> system, slurpd). >> >> But then you say: >> >>> You need to modify the master's configuration to use syncrepl. If >>> you really can't, you cant' use syncrepl, and will have to look >>> into alternatives to get your data out. >>> >>> Hope this helps, >> >> I understand what you're saying but doesn't that mean the >> documentation is wrong because it says I don't have to change the >> providers configuration. > >I think the documentation is unclear, possibly confusing. > >As I tried to elaborate, what it means is that, given an existing >provider/consumer setup, a new consumer server can be added without >restarting the provider server. > >However, initial setup *does* require changing the configuration of the >provider. >
Understood. Adding that statement to the documentation would be a good thing. -mark >Jonathan >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------- >Jonathan Clarke - [email protected] >-------------------------------------------------------------- >Ldap Synchronization Connector (LSC) - http://lsc-project.org >--------------------------------------------------------------
