RE: Overlay chain formatting

["Justin Lambert" <jlambert@ften.com>]

My problem was that I didn't read the slapd.conf man page top to bottom.
I already knew how to set a directory and was only looking for
information on syncrepl and chain since those things were new to me.
I'm not trying to insult the openldap documentation, I just made a
mistake and the information I needed (or should have known) just wasn't
provided where I was looking.  I sent this out mostly so that if someone
else is having the same problem a search will pick up my message and
help them out rather than having to ask and getting told to RTFM.  I
thought I had, evidently just not the right manual.

jl

-----Original Message-----
From: openldap-software-bounces+jlambert=ften.com@OpenLDAP.org
[mailto:openldap-software-bounces+jlambert=ften.com@OpenLDAP.org] On
Behalf Of Dave Horsfall
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:16 PM
To: OpenLDAP Software List
Subject: Re: Overlay chain formatting

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Justin Lambert wrote:

> I have spent the last week off and on trying to figure out why my
chain 
> overlay was not working correctly.  I tried all combinations of it
that 
> I could find and finally found out that the parser of the slapd.conf 
> file is picky about spacing.  I was trying to make my config file look

> nice by indenting the options under "overlay chain" only to find after

> many frustrating hours that you cannot do that!  I didn't find
anywhere 
> that that was explicitly documented (even though all of the examples 
> were not formatted that way).  I finally caught it when I upgraded to 
> 2.4.7 wondering if there was a bug and slaptest gave a very unhelpful 
> error, but it did help me narrow it down.  Hopefully this will save 
> someone my same frustrations.

man slapd.conf:

  If a line begins with white space, it is considered a  continuation
of
  the  previous line.  Blank lines and comment lines beginning with a
`#'
  character are ignored.  Note: continuation lines are  unwrapped
before
  comment processing is applied.

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