Re: instalation configuration: i am loosing my hairs

["Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

"John Nietzsche" <john.nietzsche@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear list members,
>
> i am reading the OpenLDAP Software 2.3 Administrator's Guide. I saw
> that for this version, OpenLDAP keeps its configuration inside Ldap
> service itself.
>
> I could understand how it could be done: It seemed to me an
> chicken-egg problem?
> After just installation, how could i "tell" openldap daemon server to
> access this initial configuration file?
> Where do i get this file from? Does it come from the tarball distributed?
>
> Could you give the way i should "walk" ?

write a minimal slapd.conf than execute slaptest -f<path-to-file>
-F<path-to-directory>, the diretory name must be slapd.d. man
slapd(8), man slaptest(8)

-Dieter

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