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[Tom Zeller <>]

Whoa, ntp. Could you share more details ?

I read your original message when you sent it ages ago, apologies for the 
delay.

Is the bug reproduceable ? (I would guess probably not)

On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Mark Cairney 
<>
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For completeness this was an issue at the OpenLDAP side of things rather 
> than with Grouper- one of the nodes had a clock that was slightly out of 
> sync with the others as it was configured with the default list of NTP 
> servers rather than pointing at a local NTP server. Once I corrected this 
> Grouper appears to be provisioning correctly (touch wood) and the changes 
> appear to be being replicated.
>
> Apologies!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> On 10 Jun 2011, at 15:45, Mark Cairney wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Im wondering if anyone has ever came across this issue? Essentially it 
>> looks like Im hitting a race condition in that children ou's are being 
>> created before their parent ou's thus resulting in the creation of "ghost" 
>> OU's with the "glue" objectClass. This behaviour seems to have coincided 
>> with me setting initial cache sizes and changing the subject attribute to 
>> id now that the corresponding LDAP attribute is now present.
>>
>>
>>
>> My ldappc.xml is currently:
>>
>>
>> <ldappc>
>> <grouper>
>>  <group-queries>
>>    <subordinate-stem-queries>
>>      <stem-list>
>>        <stem>affiliations</stem>
>>        <stem>pos</stem>
>>        <stem>courses</stem>
>>        <stem>org</stem>
>>        <stem>adhoc</stem>
>>      </stem-list>
>>    </subordinate-stem-queries>
>>  </group-queries>
>>
>>  <groups
>>    structure="bushy"
>>    root-dn="ou=grouper,${edu.vt.middleware.ldap.base}"
>>    ldap-object-class="groupOfNames"
>>    ldap-rdn-attribute="cn"
>>    grouper-attribute="name">
>>
>>    <group-members-dn-list list-object-class="groupOfNames" 
>> list-attribute="memb
>> er" list-empty-value="" />
>>
>>    <!-- <group-attribute-mapping ldap-object-class="groupOfNames">
>>      <group-attribute-map group-attribute="description" 
>> ldap-attribute="descrip
>> tion" />
>>    </group-attribute-mapping> -->
>>    <group-attribute-mapping ldap-object-class="posixGroup">
>>      <group-attribute-map group-attribute="gid" ldap-attribute="gidNumber" 
>> />
>>    </group-attribute-mapping>
>> </groups>
>>
>> </grouper>
>>
>> <source-subject-identifiers>
>>  <source-subject-identifier source="sourceId" subject-attribute="id">
>>    <ldap-search
>>      base="ou=people,ou=central,${edu.vt.middleware.ldap.base}"
>>      scope="onelevel_scope"
>>      filter="(eduniIdmsId={0})"
>>      on-not-found="warn" />
>>       </source-subject-identifier>
>> </source-subject-identifiers>
>>
>> </ldappc>
>>
>> /*********************************
>> Mark Cairney
>> ITI UNIX Section
>> Information Services
>> University of Edinburgh
>>
>> Tel: 0131 650 6565
>> Email: 
>> 
>>
>> *********************************/
>>
>>
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>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>
>>
>
> /*********************************
> Mark Cairney
> ITI UNIX Section
> Information Services
> University of Edinburgh
>
> Tel: 0131 650 6565
> Email: 
> 
>
> *********************************/
>
>
> --
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>
>