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Re: (ITS#3237) Commenting preceeding config line breaks



I suggest you create an small slapd.conf which demonstrates
the problem.  We rather not deal with more input than
necessary.

At 04:20 PM 7/16/2004, kop@meme.com wrote:

>On 2004.07.16 09:30 Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> > RedHat 7.3
>> > OpenLDAP 2.0.27-2.7.3
>> >
>> > Commenting the line immediately preceeding a attributetype
>> declaration in
>> > the
>> > config file results in an error when starting slapd which says that
>> the
>> > attribute does not exist.
>> 
>> Can you show an example?
>
>Yes, but not until Monday.   I'd prefer to email the schema config file
>directly to you.  It's not exactly senstive information but I'd rather
>not have the file on the web.
>
>I believe the problem occurs when the 'attributetype' declaration
>does not start at the beginning of the line, when it is preceeded
>with spaces (or possibly tabs).
>
>> Of course this version has not been supported since 2002 or so; if the
>> same error occurs with HEAD, then it'll surely be fixed, but there's
>> no
>> way such an old and historic release be patched.
>
>Naturally.  I wrote so that if you find it in HEAD you can fix it.
>
>Thanks for looking into it.
>
>Karl <kop@meme.com>
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