Re: portable.h contents in back-monitor (Was: [Fwd: commit: ldap/servers/slapd/back-monitor...)

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 10:00 -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>
>   
> > The only use I can think of for wanting portable.h details
> > is when a new support engineer needs to reverse engineer
> > someone else's poorly-documented installed system.
> >     
>
> Another use would be to ask people to run slapcat -b cn=monitor when
> they report an issue and don't have their build environment available
> (e.g. because they didn't build slapd at all :).
>   

Requiring the jump through a database seems unnecessary, it could just 
be a standard option to slapd and all of the slap tools. Or just slapd 
and slaptest. Or ...

In particular, if OpenLDAP was built with --disable-monitor then the 
information would be inaccessible. Not too useful, eh?

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