Re: Overlay chain formatting

Chris Sellers wrote:

I agree. The man pages offer content that is not in the admin guide and are generally well written. Use the man pages if the admin guide leaves you wondering

In this particular case, the same info is also in the Admin Guide. But yes, that's the whole point, the Admin Guide is explicitly NOT an exhaustive reference, it's just there to provide an overview. The manpages are the authoritative reference.

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Apparently you haven't read the slapd.conf(5) manpage:

   If  a  line begins with white space, it is considered a continuation of
   the previous line.  No physical line should be over 2000 bytes long.