Migrating from NIS to JDS 6.3 - problems with addNISObject

Question

I'm trying (again) to transfer our NIS maps to the LDAP server using the inityp2l command.
This seems to work. It sets up the NISLDAPmapping and the /etc/default/ypserv files, but when I run ypserv -Ir, I get the following errors:
Mar 30 15:45:14 sun34 ypserv[6260]: [ID 473756 user.error] addNISObject: ldapAdd error 32 (No such object) for (dn: dc=starfleet,dc=example,dc=com)
Mar 30 15:45:15 sun34 ypserv[6260]: [ID 473756 user.error] addNISObject: ldapAdd error 32 (No such object) for (dn: dc=com)
Mar 30 15:45:15 sun34 ypserv[6260]: [ID 556977 user.error] addParent: Unable to create parent (dn: dc=com) of (dn: dc=example,dc=com) in the DIT
Mar 30 15:45:15 sun34 ypserv[6260]: [ID 556977 user.error] addParent: Unable to create parent (dn: dc=example,dc=com) of (dn: dc=starfleet,dc=example,dc=com) in the DIT
Mar 30 15:45:15 sun34 ypserv[6260]: [ID 572537 user.error] Could not make nisDomain object for starfleet.example.com
Now, I've looked for the nis attributes in the LDAP server, and I can't find any. Do I have to manually add all of the nisObject classes? I used the ldapsearch command giveni n the following site here.
I still get nothing when I use the following command:
ldapsearch -b cn=schema objectclass=* | grep nisDomainObject Anyway, it looks like the LDAP server instance in JDS 6.3 doesn't include any nis object classes at all. Following the instructions in the documentation results in the errors above.
Interestingly, the errors log has the following entry (which leads me to assume that JDS 6.3 does not include nis object classes):
[30/Mar/2009:13:28:49 +0100] - ERROR<5894> - Schema - conn=10 op=1 msgId=2 - User error: Entry "dc=example,dc=com" has unknown object class "nisDomainObject"
Note that I had to add that objectclass myself.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Edited by: cannonac on 30-Mar-2009 15:53

Answer 1

You've done it again. I have to say, I'm new to this but I thought, and the documentation doesn't really give much of a clue, that idsconfig was meant fo iPlanet Directory Server 5.x, not JDS 6.x. That's why I hadn't done anything with it.
Thank you for all the help you've given me with this install. I'd be bald with frustration now if it wasn't for your help.
Andy