Re: How to set BDB "read-only" before slapcat command ?

[Andrew Hall <whippyhubbles@googlemail.com>]

2009/2/8 Oliver Liebel <oliver@itc.li>:
> take a look in the admin guide.
>
> use online config with slapd.d.
> you can trigger readonly-mode with a simple ldif
> on the fly, using the olcReadOnly-Attribute
>
> see:
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/slapdconf2.html#cn=config
> section:
> 5.2.5.3. olcReadonly { TRUE | FALSE }

Aha! Thanks very much.

Not quite sure what's meant by an "online config" (a dynamically
changing server config?) but I plan to find out.

Cheers.