Raphaël Ouazana-Sustowski wrote:

Hi,

Le Jeu 13 septembre 2007 21:29, hyc@symas.com a écrit :

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There is nothing ambiguous here. When slapd.conf is being used, the dbconfig directive *only* takes effect *if* no DB_CONFIG file exists. If one exists, the dbconfig directives are ignored.

So if someone first create its DB_CONFIG by putting dbconfig directives in slapd.conf, and then modify these directives, the modification has no effect ?

Correct.

Reading the man page, I thought that the directives don't modify DB_CONFIG, but were applied at slapd's startup.

For slapd.conf, the directives can only take effect after they are written to DB_CONFIG. They will only be written to DB_CONFIG at startup time, and only if no such file already existed.

The main reason this directive was added was for the benefit of cn=config. Using it in slapd.conf is rather pointless. Once you start managing slapd through cn=config, you are expected to stop editing DB_CONFIG manually.