diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ce3d9bd30d3efb0897c1a5f1c27ec06ee8d56ac7..13c9983032e22c9025ed33e91c6baf14308f8e75 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4.13 Engineering
 	Added slapd support for certificateListExactMatch (ITS#5700)
 	Fixed slapd syncrepl event loss (ITS#5710)
 	Fixed slapd syncrepl MOD of attrs with no EQ rule (ITS#5781)
+	Fixed slapd syncrepl schema checking (ITS#5798)
 	Fixed slapd undef promote (ITS#5783,ITS#5795)
 	Added slapd What failed? control (ITS#5784)
 	Fixed slapd-bdb/hdb invalid db crash (ITS#5698)
diff --git a/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c b/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c
index 199c882c9361943af772d30c4c0d0413c863f0c1..476cdae5536f2fc4dc37466610a62c47f6765a29 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c
@@ -4063,9 +4063,6 @@ add_syncrepl(
 			"Config: ** successfully added syncrepl \"%s\"\n",
 			BER_BVISNULL( &si->si_bindconf.sb_uri ) ?
 			"(null)" : si->si_bindconf.sb_uri.bv_val, 0, 0 );
-		if ( !si->si_schemachecking ) {
-			SLAP_DBFLAGS(c->be) |= SLAP_DBFLAG_NO_SCHEMA_CHECK;
-		}
 		if ( c->be->be_syncinfo ) {
 			si->si_cookieState = c->be->be_syncinfo->si_cookieState;
 		} else {