Re: back-config, includes

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> Howard Chu writes:
>  
>
> > e.g., given a LDAP_SYSCONFDIR of /etc/openldap the default config
> > directory is /etc/openldap/slapd.d.
> >    
> Our site has two schema directories: The directory which OpenLDAP
> installs with its own schema files, and a directory outside
> LDAP_SYSCONFDIR with our other schema files.  LDAP_SYSCONFDIR contains
> the OpenLDAP version name, so we have to copy the configuration (*.conf)
> from the last installation to the current one and edit it a bit.
>
> It's not the biggest problem in the world to create symlinks between the
> two, but if others have the same setup, remember that there are
> filesystemes that do not support symlinks.  And _copying_ schema files
> from the private schema directory to the installation directory could
> easily lead to mismatches - one would edit a file in one directory but
> forgot to copy it to the others.
>  
First of all, schema files are not the sort of thing that get edited 
frequently. Secondly, all of the old-style config files are being phased 
out. Only LDIFs should be actively maintained on a 2.3 installation. As 
I posted already, you can continue to do things the old way, but it 
would be advantageous to migrate to the new and stay there.

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