Re: cn=config example

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Gavin Henry wrote:
> > Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > > Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you have an existing slapd.conf you can simply let slapd convert 
> > > > it to a
> > > > cn=config database for you.
> > > That's the -F flag, but how does it works? I made little attemps,
> > > without much success.
> > >
> > > As I understand, schema replication won't work with syncrepl on 2.3.x,
> > > right?
> >
> > There's a new man page in 2.4 (slapd-config), but basically:
> >
> > "Alternatively, an existing slapd.conf file can be converted to the  new
> >         format using slapd or any of the slap tools:
> >                slaptest -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F 
> > ETCDIR/slapd."
>
> Note that this feature was already documented in the existing 
> slapd/slapadd/slap* manpages in 2.3. It's a shame that we go to the 
> trouble of writing these docs that nobody actually reads.

We should just write mindless howtos like the everyone else out there. 
Then all we need is some whytos ;-)

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