Re: 2.3 admin guide

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:39 PM +0100 Gerard Ranke 
> <gerard.ranke@kmt.hku.nl> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wanted to read up on indexing, and I noticed that, in the admin guide,
> > the index directive  is under par. 6.2.5.6. So it seems as if this is
> > specific to the ldbm backend ( par. 6.2.5 ). I was under the impression
> > that index directives were valid for bdb backends too. So, can I use
> > index directives for bdb? And is the syntax in 6.2.5.6 still valid?
> > Thanks for your answers.
>
> I'd look at the slapd-bdb man page.
>
> <http://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapd-bdb&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenLDAP+2.3-Release&format=html> 

That would be best.
> You are correct, however, the Admin guide needs some updating, as both 
> cachesize and index are not solely a part of LDBM (which will be removed 
> in 2.4).

Chapter 5 of the Admin Guide contains more up to date examples, using 
back-bdb and back-hdb instead of back-ldbm.

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