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Full_Name: Ryan Steele Version: 2.4.15 OS: Ubuntu 8.04 LTD URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (207.106.239.81)

According to chapter 5 of the admin guide, "some of the backends and of the distributed overlays do not support runtime configuration yet. In those

cases,

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the old style slapd.conf(5) file must be used." However, there is no documentation on which backends and overlays do and don't have said support. Without grokking the code, it is a trial-and-error operation at best.

Point taken. I'm pretty sure they all do now. Will check and update that section.

back-meta and back-sql don't yet. I have half (er, somewhere between 0 and 100%, boundaries not included) in a working dir somewhere, and rough ideas about what to do with back-meta.

p.