Re: mysterious segfault

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Jason Dusek wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati<ando@sys-net.it>  wrote:
> > Jason Dusek wrote:
> > > Pierangelo Masarati<ando@sys-net.it>  wrote:
> > > > Jason Dusek wrote:
> > > > > I've added two seemingly innocuous lines to my LDAP
> > > > > configuration...
> > > > ...the culprit is mucking with files.
> > >   Okay, hold on right there. How am I supposed to configure
> > >   these directives if not by "mucking" with files?
> > using an LDAP modify operation.
>
>    Silly me. I hope the documentation will describe syncrepl
>    configuration via LDIF, someday.

You're asking for the wrong thing. The documentation describes how to 
configure slapd using LDAP. Whether you use LDIF to represent the LDAP 
operations or not is irrelevant. Whether slapd uses LDIF internally to 
represent the config database is irrelevant. If we had used BDB to store the 
config database you wouldn't ever have even dreamed of mucking with the files, 
would you?

It is LDAP-based configuration, *NOT* "LDIF-based" configuration. That means 
you treat the configuration like any other database and use 
ldapadd/modify/search etc. to operate on it.

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