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
----- Original Message ----- From: openldap-software-bounces+chris.sellers=nitle.org@OpenLDAP.org openldap-software-bounces+chris.sellers=nitle.org@OpenLDAP.org To: Justin Lambert jlambert@ften.com Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org openldap-software@openldap.org Sent: Thu Dec 20 19:10:55 2007 Subject: Re: Overlay chain formatting
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).
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.
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.
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.
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