On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Justin Lambert wrote:
I have spent the last week off and on trying to figure out why my chain overlay was not working correctly. I tried all combinations of it that I could find and finally found out that the parser of the slapd.conf file is picky about spacing. I was trying to make my config file look nice by indenting the options under "overlay chain" only to find after many frustrating hours that you cannot do that! I didn't find anywhere that that was explicitly documented (even though all of the examples were not formatted that way). I finally caught it when I upgraded to 2.4.7 wondering if there was a bug and slaptest gave a very unhelpful error, but it did help me narrow it down. Hopefully this will save someone my same frustrations.
man slapd.conf:
If a line begins with white space, it is considered a continuation of the previous line. Blank lines and comment lines beginning with a `#' character are ignored. Note: continuation lines are unwrapped before comment processing is applied.