I agree. The man pages offer content that is not in the admin guide and are generally well written. Use the man pages if the admin guide leaves you wondering
----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Justin Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Thu Dec 20 19:10:55 2007 Subject: Re: Overlay chain formatting Justin Lambert wrote: > I have spent the last week off and on trying to figure out why my chain > overlay was not working correctly. I tried all combinations of it that I > could find and finally found out that the parser of the slapd.conf file > is picky about spacing. I was trying to make my config file look nice by > indenting the options under "overlay chain" only to find after many > frustrating hours that you cannot do that! I didn't find anywhere that > that was explicitly documented (even though all of the examples were not > formatted that way). Apparently you haven't read the slapd.conf(5) manpage: If a line begins with white space, it is considered a continuation of the previous line. No physical line should be over 2000 bytes long. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
