Re: cn=config example

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Friday 21 September 2007 09:52:03 Howard Chu wrote:
> > > At present, it seems that if you want to do the conversion while slapd is
> > > running, and for a slapd that runs as non-root, something like this is
> > > the best option:
> > >
> > > # slapd -u ldap -g ldap -d none -h
> > > ldap://localhost:391/ -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F
> > > /etc/openldap/slapd.d
> > >
> > > As then
> > > -The configuration will be converted
> > > -slapd won't start up
> > What makes you say that?
>
> It will fail to open the database already opened by the running slapd.

You're assuming a back-bdb/hdb database. Not everyone uses them. There are 
quite a large number of installations using just back-ldap/meta etc... The 
slaptest invocation will always work.

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