Paul B. Henson wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
Yes. My point is: why doesn't this work for you?
It does (and is for now), but requires I edit the system startup script
(/etc/init.d/slapd). I'd rather have a configuration mechanism that doesn't
need me to tweak parts of the OS not intended to be modified for
configuration purposes.
What other method would you suggest?
That slapd never make a syncrepl request with deref aliases enabled
(regardless of global ldap.conf settings), as that will always fail. Or a
mechanism allowing specific ldap options to be set for slapd either in the
config file or via command line options. Per Howard's suggestion, I opened
an ITS for each of those.
I would probably reject the latter, since such mechanisms already exist.
You're just unwilling to use them.
I should note that /etc/init.d/slapd was not provided by us. A reasonable
distro packager always provides the ability to source an external config file
for site-specific options in their init.d scripts. Whether yours does or not
is not an OpenLDAP Project concern though.
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