>Howard Chu wrote:

> Gavin Henry wrote:

>> Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

>>> Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

>>>

>>>> 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:

> 

>> "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.

>

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