Re: Bootstrap slapd config with back-config

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dieter Kluenter wrote:
>  Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> writes:
> > Read the 2.3 Admin Guide, in CVS. If you need more help after that,
> > we can resume this thread.

>  Please give us a hint :-) http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/
>  doesn't say anything about cn=config, and I can't convert HEAD to
>  html as sdf doesn't compile on my system.

I've made a number of updates to the slapdconf2.sdf chapter in the Guide 
and refreshed the copy  on my web site.
 http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc/ldapguide/

All of the text in chapter 5 is now up to date. (I think. Please point 
out any errors/ask questions/etc.)

Some points to note:
   slurpd still has not been updated to recognize the new cn=config 
format. If you're stuck with slurpd (unable to migrate to syncrepl) then 
you will have to manually maintain a slapd.conf file for slurpd to read. 
It can of course be stripped down since slurpd just needs to see the 
replication-specific directives.

   While slapd.conf-style include files are deprecated, we've added 
support for the slapd code and slap tools to process LDIF include 
directives. I.e., you can use
       include: <URL>
to insert other LDIF-formatted data into an LDIF stream. This feature is 
not yet part of the LDIF RFC, but some discussion about it was on the 
LDAPEXT mailing list a couple months ago:
       http://www.openldap.org/lists/ietf-ldapext/200504/msg00004.html
   The example in the Admin Guide section 5.4 uses this feature to 
reference the core schema definitions.
   I just checked, and I see that the ldap* tools have not been updated 
with this support because they don't use the same library routines that 
the slap* tools use to read LDIF files. (ugh.)

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