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Re: (ITS#5028) incomplete slapcat docs



<quote who="hyc@symas.com">
> steve@stevenwills.com wrote:
>> Full_Name: Steve Wills
>> Version: 2.3.19
>> OS: Fedora
>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>> Submission from: (NULL) (65.15.231.202)
>>
>>
>> The slapcat man page says in the Limitations section:
>>
>>        In general, your slapd(8) should not be running (at least, not in
>> read-write mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the database.
>>
>> However, I've been told several times that this only applies to ldbm and
>> not
>> bdb. Not sure about other types, but it would be good to clarify this
>> section.
>>
> Given that back-ldbm has been deleted for 2.4, I guess we can just delete
> this
> sentence.

I would agree.

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