Re: cn=config example

Howard Chu wrote:

Gavin Henry wrote:

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Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

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Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:

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Use slaptest instead.

Oh, right, I missed that one. Perhaps this is the missing piece in the docs? It's not obvious how to explain it, though. I'm not sure the sentence below is satisfying.

   -F slapd-config-directory
          Specifies the slapd  configuration  directory.  The
          default  is /usr/pkg/share/examples/openldap/slapd.d.  If
          both -f and -F are specified, the config file will be read
          and converted to  config directory  format  and  written
          to the specified directory before slapd starts regular
          operations. slaptest(8) can also be used to just perform
          the conversion.

in slapd(8) in HEAD, the last sentence does say:

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"All of the slap tools that use the config options observe this same behavior."

Not just in HEAD. That text has been there since May/June 2005, 2.3 onward.

OK. Well, there's no excuse for people missing it then. A bit of thought would lead them to slaptest. Or do we have to actually say slaptest.