Re: back-config testing status

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --On Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:41 AM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" 
> <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:
>
> > At this point, I'm just waiting for Howard to give me the
> > go ahead.  HEAD and RE23 are, at this moment, nearly
> > identical.
>
>
> Okay.  The ACL issue was resolved yesterday.  I've not had a chance 
> yet to do any testing of the servers actually functioning under 
> replication.
>
>
> I will be filing an ITS shortly for an enhancement to slapd (one shot 
> mode) to be used for updating configuration files to cn=config.  My 
> repeated testing has underscored to me what an absolutely useful 
> feature this would be.  slaptest doesn't cut it, unfortunately.  The 
> beta doesn't need to wait on the enhancement of course, but I think it 
> would be good to have (and documented) before 2.3 goes public.

I guess we could create a new "slapconvert" tool, but basically any of 
the slap tools that starts up the backends will do the trick. slapacl 
works for me as a quickie. It looks like slaptest ought to startup a 
database but doesn't.

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