Re: Cannot get "logpurge" to work

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > > Nope; still not purging, even with a 5-minute scan.
> > Well, it works perfectly for me...
> >
> > My syntax is a bit different than yours though:
>
> [...]
>
> > In your example configuration, you didn't show the overlay bit being 
> > inside another database definition, but I assume it is...
>
> Yes, it is, and it took a while to work that one out; talk about 
> economical documentation :-)

The overlay keyword is documented in slapd.conf(5) under the General 
Database Options. The first sentence of this section states:

    Options in this section only apply to the configuration file
    section for the database in which they are defined.

The documentation for the overlay keyword begins:

    Add the specified overlay to this database.

I would think it's clear from these statements that overlay 
configurations are only valid on specific databases.

Why use a thousand words to say the same thing over and over again? Why 
write any documentation at all when the existing documents are so 
obviously being ignored?

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