Am Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:30:49 -0800 schrieb Quanah Gibson-Mount <qua...@zimbra.com>:
> > > --On November 2, 2014 at 8:43:00 AM -0500 Jerry <je...@seibercom.net> > wrote: > > >> Are you also new to BSD and manpages? You've been told, multiple > >> times, what to do. Read the docs. > > > > I have read the "docs", "man pages" and searched on-line. I even > > copied configuration files from the web and tried them, all without > > success. FreeBSD does not work the way other *.nix systems do, and > > I don't have any more time to invest in this venture today. Perhaps > > if the FreeBSD team releases an OpenLDAP that is configured to work > > with "mdb" in the future, I will revisit the issue. In any case, it > > is working with "bdb" and that will have to suffice for now. > > Hi Jerry, > > As someone who works on the documentation for OpenLDAP, I would like > to understand this answer better. > > First off, in the 2nd response to your email from Dieter, he > specifically said: > > > This is the important part, back-mdb has been built as module. > > Include back-mdb into the module load part of your slapd > > configuraton. > > In the slapd.conf you provided, there is a clear and explicit example > of a module being loaded: > > > moduleload back_bdb > > Please explain to me, in depth, what was lacking in response and > documentation that you were unable to comprehend an explicit > instruction to moduleload back mdb that was provided to you multiple > times? > > I'm also not sure what FreeBSD vs Linux has to do with anything. > OpenLDAP is simply a piece of compiled software. How it is compiled > and what options are available to it may vary from distribution to > distribution (whether those are linux or *bsd distributions), but > there is zero to do with FreeBSD vs Linux. Quanah, be patient, remember 14-15 years ago we had almost the same questions and problems. -Dieter -- Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung https://sys4.de GPG Key ID:E9ED159B 53°37'09,95"N 10°08'02,42"E