Further details as to why slapcat(8) output cannot be used

[openldap] / doc / man / man5 / slapd-meta.5

diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
index e9054bfe1792c12b7570febdc21e7b8a66a19b7b..2bf1e8a0e83b1eda34e543577d498449ef400acc 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .TH SLAPD-META 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
-.\" Copyright 1998-2005 The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2006 The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved.
 .\" Copying restrictions apply.  See the COPYRIGHT file.
 .\" Copyright 2001, Pierangelo Masarati, All rights reserved. <ando@sys-net.it>
 .\" $OpenLDAP$
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@ These features, although useful in many scenarios, may result in
 excessive overhead for some applications, so its use should be
 carefully considered.
 In the examples section, some typical scenarios will be discussed.
+
+.LP
+Note: When looping back to the same instance of \fBslapd\fP(8), 
+each connection requires a new thread; as a consequence, \fBslapd\fP(8)
+must be compiled with thread support, and the \fBthreads\fP parameter 
+may need some tuning; in those cases, unless the multiple target feature
+is required, one may consider using \fBslapd-relay\fP(5) instead, 
+which performs the relayed operation internally and thus reuses 
+the same connection.
+
 .SH EXAMPLES
 There are examples in various places in this document, as well as in the
 slapd/back-meta/data/ directory in the OpenLDAP source tree.
@@ -100,6 +110,11 @@ illustrated for the
 .B idle-timeout
 directive.
 
+.TP
+.B conn-ttl <time>
+This directive causes a cached connection to be dropped an recreated
+after a given ttl, regardless of being idle or not.
+
 .TP
 .B onerr {CONTINUE|stop}
 This directive allows to select the behavior in case an error is returned
@@ -169,6 +184,15 @@ causes \fIl2.foo.com\fP to be contacted whenever \fIl1.foo.com\fP
 does not respond.
 .RE
 
+.TP
+.B subtree-exclude "<DN>"
+This directive instructs back-meta to ignore the current target
+for operations whose requestDN is subordinate to
+.BR DN .
+There may be multiple occurrences of the
+.B subtree-exclude
+directive for each of the targets.
+
 .TP
 .B acl-authcDN "<administrative DN for access control purposes>"
 DN which is used to query the target server for acl checking,