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Re: instalation configuration: i am loosing my hairs



What is the different between "backend" and "database" terms ?

Thank you.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de> wrote:
> "John Nietzsche" <john.nietzsche@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> i am reading the OpenLDAP Software 2.3 Administrator's Guide. I saw
>> that for this version, OpenLDAP keeps its configuration inside Ldap
>> service itself.
>>
>> I could understand how it could be done: It seemed to me an
>> chicken-egg problem?
>> After just installation, how could i "tell" openldap daemon server to
>> access this initial configuration file?
>> Where do i get this file from? Does it come from the tarball distributed?
>>
>> Could you give the way i should "walk" ?
>
> write a minimal slapd.conf than execute slaptest -f<path-to-file>
> -F<path-to-directory>, the diretory name must be slapd.d. man
> slapd(8), man slaptest(8)
>
> -Dieter
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