Re: back-config design considerarions - Admin Guide fodder

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>  --On Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:18 PM +0200 Michael Ströder
>  <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
> > Michael Ströder wrote:
> >> If I'm using option -f slapd.conf and -F configdir/ together
> >> which config data is authorative? [..] My conclusion: Drop -f
> >> slapd.conf completely in 2.3.x and rather develop good setup
> >> tools...

> > Well, same question for file DB_CONFIG and attribute
> > 'olcDbConfig'...

>  I can't see -f going away until at least *everything* supports the
>  new config backend, which it doesn't.

Agreed.

>  Besides which point, when I do testing of various setups, I use -f
>  extensively to switch between configuration files on the same host,
>  which is a lot simpler than mucking around with various config
>  backends. Other people may want to keep their slapd.conf files for
>  things like version control, etc, as well.

Is it really harder to type "-F /some/alternate/configdir" than "-f 
/some/alternate/configfile" ?

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