Ben Poliakoff wrote:
This is more of a practical question than a technical one, but it's prompted by a technical change: I'm *very* **very** belatedly transitioning from flat file slapd.conf config to slapd.d/OLC.
With flat file configuration, it was straightforward to include text comments (e.g. "# blah blah"), but as far as I know there isn't any sort of analog for comments, when using slapd.d. Looking for any tips about how best to annotate slapd configuration, in a slapd.d/olc world. Does anyone have a practice that they find works well for them? Do people just maintain separate documents/wiki pages/etc that describe their servers' configs?
There's no real mechanism for commenting in the config itself. We could add optional "description" attributes to all of the config objectclasses, which would at least let you keep some information near the relevant locations, but it still wouldn't be the equivalent of line-by-line commenting.