[Freeipa-users] Fedora 11 master replication problems

[Rob Crittenden]

Dan Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, I just checked the manpage myself and I see that there's an
> init option to ipa-replica-manage.
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:08, Rich Megginson<rmeggins at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>> Initialization is the initial copy of data from the master - The slave
>>> server (curie) has been configured and replicating for a while.
>>
>> Has curie been restored from a backup?  Initialized from another master?
>>   Been shutdown for over a week?
>
> Nope, none of these: Not restored, initialized from another master or
> shutdown for over a week. There is a possibility that there was an
> un-noticed problem with dirsrv which lasted for a week though.
>
>> Does the ipa-replica-manage command line tool have an option for doing a
>> reinit?
>
> I see that there's an 'init' option. If I'm happy to throw away any
> changes on curie, can I just run the init on curie and it will
> re-initialize from the master?
>
> Thanks for your help.

You should log into the "master" (the host that is replicating to curie) 
and run:

# ipa-replica-manage init curie.example.com

rob