hyc@symas.com writes:

Raphaël Ouazana-Sustowski wrote:

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Thank you very much for the clarification.

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Just for the records, it seems that Debian packages (and maybe others) use dbconfig directives without warning users that they should not modify these parameters here...

Thanks for that bit of information, I was not aware of that. For the record, Debian packagers have never asked us whether what they're doing makes any bit of sense.

Well, that's not exactly true, given that I have in fact talked with Quanah about this and he recommended setting everything in slapd.conf instead of using a separate DB_CONFIG file, although the code in the Debian package predates that.

Certainly there should be a comment explaining that changes there only take effect if the DB_CONFIG file doesn't exist. I'll file a bug against the Debian package for whenever someone gets a chance to upload a new version. (I wish I had more time to work on this.)