Fix backend selection diagnostics

diff --git a/servers/slapd/slapcommon.c b/servers/slapd/slapcommon.c
index 0ef4b4e1f18b6d9ffd662a2175c14d85c1ac1782..2667e2e7dc67ec0476e536fe579a62856c68435b 100644 (file)
--- a/servers/slapd/slapcommon.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/slapcommon.c
@@ -525,12 +525,17 @@ slap_tool_init(
                }
 
        } else if ( dbnum == -1 ) {
+               /* no suffix and no dbnum specified, just default to
+                * the first available database
+                */
                if ( nbackends <= 0 ) {
                        fprintf( stderr, "No available databases\n" );
                        exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
                }
                LDAP_STAILQ_FOREACH( be, &backendDB, be_next ) {
                        dbnum++;
+
+                       /* db #0 is cn=config, don't select it as a default */
                        if ( dbnum < 1 ) continue;
                
                        if ( SLAP_MONITOR(be))
@@ -552,19 +557,19 @@ slap_tool_init(
                        exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
                }
                
-               if ( nosubordinates == 0 && dbnum > 0 ) {
+               if ( nosubordinates == 0 && dbnum > 1 ) {
                        Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY,
                                "The first database does not allow %s;"
                                " using the first available one (%d)\n",
-                               progname, dbnum + 1, 0 );
+                               progname, dbnum, 0 );
                }
 
        } else if ( dbnum < 0 || dbnum > (nbackends-1) ) {
                fprintf( stderr,
                        "Database number selected via -n is out of range\n"
-                       "Must be in the range 1 to %d"
-                       " (number of databases in the config file)\n",
-                       nbackends );
+                       "Must be in the range 0 to %d"
+                       " (number of configured databases)\n",
+                       nbackends-1 );
                exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
 
        } else {