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Re: (ITS#5028) incomplete slapcat docs



<quote who="ghenry@suretecsystems.com">
> <quote who="h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no">
>> hyc@symas.com writes:
>>> steve@stevenwills.com wrote:
>>>> The slapcat man page says in the Limitations section:
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>>>>        In general, your slapd(8) should not be running (at least, not
>>>> in
>>>> read-write mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the
>>>> database.
>>>> (...)
>>> Given that back-ldbm has been deleted for 2.4, I guess we can just
>>> delete this sentence.
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>> It could produce garbage data with back-ldif, and with some foreign
>> database module.  I think it should say it's safe with bdb (and null).
>> Could copy it to the slapd-bdb(5) too.  (I don't suggest to make
>> slapcat(8) refer the user to that, since there is only one example
>> anyway.)
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> Obviously hdb too. Would it produce garbage on 2.4?

Do we want to do anything with this for .37?

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>> Regards,
>> Hallvard
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