Re: cn=config example

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Gavin Henry wrote:
> Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If you have an existing slapd.conf you can simply let slapd convert it to a
> > > cn=config database for you.
> > That's the -F flag, but how does it works? I made little attemps,
> > without much success.
> >
> > As I understand, schema replication won't work with syncrepl on 2.3.x,
> > right?
>
> There's a new man page in 2.4 (slapd-config), but basically:
>
> "Alternatively, an existing slapd.conf file can be converted to the  new
>         format using slapd or any of the slap tools:
>                slaptest -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F 
> ETCDIR/slapd."

Note that this feature was already documented in the existing 
slapd/slapadd/slap* manpages in 2.3. It's a shame that we go to the trouble of 
writing these docs that nobody actually reads.
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