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Re: Admin Guide configuration example confusion (ITS#691)



I concur.  The mention of other backend databases should be removed
and another flag, such as --disable-crypt, be used in the example.

At 05:26 PM 8/29/00 +0000, cedric@earthling.net wrote:
>Full_Name: Cedric Tefft
>Version: CVS
>OS: N/A
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>Submission from: (NULL) (205.138.230.84)
>
>
>Yesterday's CVS version of the Admin Guide has a somewhat confusing example in
>section 4.2: "Running configure" just after table 4.1: "Environment Variables". 
>The verbage describing the example invocation of the configure script talks
>about configuring the LDBM backend and the shell backend, but the shell backend
>is not mentioned anywhere else in the example.  It is not clear how shell
>support is being enabled.  If it is enabled by default this should be explicitly
>stated so as not to confuse the reader.
>
>Additionally, the given example enables a backend described as the "DNS-SRV"
>backend which isn't mentioned anywhere else in the guide.