Re: Including schema in directory based config?

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

btb@bitrate.net wrote:
> On 2010.09.02 11.30, Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Howard Chu wrote:
>>> cn=config is a slapd database and should be treated as such. The
>>> contents are not vanilla LDIF files, and database internals are always
>>> subject to change. It was designed to be used like other LDAP databases
>>> - using ldap* tools when slapd is running, and using slap* tools when
>>> slapd is offline.
>>
>> While this is true for normal conditions couldn't there be situations 
>> where cn=config was tweaked in such a way that the server won't come up 
>> anymore? In this case tweaking the LDIF directly is an appropriate
>> solution.
> 
> "and using slap* tools when slapd is offline."..., no?

Note that slap* actually use the config, here cn=config
(see command-line option -F)...

Actually those situation are likely very rare if one is always tweaking
cn=config via LDAP.

Ciao, Michael.