Re: (ITS#5134) dbconfig vs. DB_CONFIG

[hyc@symas.com]

ando@sys-net.it wrote:
> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>>> Reading the man page, I thought that the directives don't modify
>>> DB_CONFIG, but were applied at slapd's startup.
>> For slapd.conf, the directives can only take effect after they are written to 
>> DB_CONFIG. They will only be written to DB_CONFIG at startup time, and only if 
>> no such file already existed.
>>
>> The main reason this directive was added was for the benefit of cn=config. 
>> Using it in slapd.conf is rather pointless. Once you start managing slapd 
>> through cn=config, you are expected to stop editing DB_CONFIG manually.
> 
> I didn't mention that the whole discussion started because Debian seems
> to ship with both a default DB_CONFIG installed in the database
> directory, and the very same directives echoed in slapd.conf.  People
> find the dbconfig directives, modify them and complain because they
> don't take effect.  And, I couldn't disambiguate the man page because I
> didn't find it clear enough about this point.

The manpage also says "This allows one to set initial values without 
overwriting/destroying a DB_CONFIG file that was already customized through 
other means." If the dbconfig settings had any other effect they would (a) no 
longer be *initial* values and (b) overwrite/destroy an existing DB_CONFIG 
file. Clearly that's not the intended behavior.
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