On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Gavin Henry ghenry@openldap.org wrote:
Do we skip that bit and just talk about config or what?
I'd be inclined to document a source build, from the current release, at least then people would end up with a newer version and dependencies were provided (bdb etc.,) as part. Describing using binary packages is going to be a morass of distribution specific details and caviats, package names & versions etc., a source build instruction (with explicit links to third party libraries) is going to date more slowly and be simpler to read.
Then maybe show a script to generate some random test data (such as Make LDIF from OpenDS https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/MakeLdif), and how to load it into an ldap instance and get it running etc., or documetn how to load some canned test data.
And then a basic example of how to run ldapsearch, ldapmodify and a list of GUI tools such as Apache Directory Studio, etc.,
Running through a source build is not that hard if documented, distribution binaries / libraries are usually very outdated / broken.
What about adopting the Zytrax stuff, updating it and get them to do a 301
redirect to our wiki?
I'm sure you could ask. But it might not be actively supported anymore, so maybe noone to ask .. ?
Cheers Brett