Re: syncrepl failure logs/configuring alias deref

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>
> > Yes.  My point is: why doesn't this work for you?
>
> It does (and is for now), but requires I edit the system startup script
> (/etc/init.d/slapd). I'd rather have a configuration mechanism that doesn't
> need me to tweak parts of the OS not intended to be modified for
> configuration purposes.
>
> > What other method would you suggest?
>
> That slapd never make a syncrepl request with deref aliases enabled
> (regardless of global ldap.conf settings), as that will always fail. Or a
> mechanism allowing specific ldap options to be set for slapd either in the
> config file or via command line options. Per Howard's suggestion, I opened
> an ITS for each of those.

I would probably reject the latter, since such mechanisms already exist. 
You're just unwilling to use them.

I should note that /etc/init.d/slapd was not provided by us. A reasonable 
distro packager always provides the ability to source an external config file 
for site-specific options in their init.d scripts. Whether yours does or not 
is not an OpenLDAP Project concern though.

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