Reading/searching the backend database at initialization time

["Krishna Ganugapati" <krishnag@marakicorp.com>]

Assumptions:
I already have a bunch of objects in a specific DIT partition

I'd like to read them before I do anything else because they store a bunch of configuration information

I'd like to access the backend database at initialization time and read a bunch of objects - essentially, I want to do the equivalent of:

open database
submit a search
get a bunch of objects
close database

I looked at Appendix A (writing your own backend) in the adminstrator's guide but it seems  to be out of date circa 1996 and my interest is to just retrieve a bunch of objects in a specific DIT partition where I've stored some additional configuration information.

Can someone tell me what I need to do and how I go about this?

Thanks

Krishna