<quote who="Howard Chu">

ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:

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I would say since dbconfig directives only work on a restart of slapd, and that if a DB_CONFIG is present, the DB_CONFIG should *always* take precedence. If dbconfig changes could make a difference via back-config, which they can't without a restart, then dbconfig stuff should override any DB_CONFIG.

dbconfig behavior via cn=config is fully dynamic, and thus quite different from slapd.conf. Changes to dbconfig via cn=config take effect immediately and will completely rewrite the DB_CONFIG file.

Understood, but a restart would still be needed to make the db env honour DB_CONFIG, right?

Gavin.