ITS#2594 add URI support for replica config

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

diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-shell.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-shell.5
index af039f984a26cc22552da5cbff04ca50ce52ee66..4a339a7067b6d41fe6e76c9cfafeee99ed1cc411 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-shell.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-shell.5
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.TH SLAPD-SHELL 5 "2 May 2002" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
-.\" Copyright 1998-2002 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
+.TH SLAPD-SHELL 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
+.\" Copyright 1998-2003 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
 .\" Copying restrictions apply.  See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
 .\" $OpenLDAP$
 .SH NAME
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ executes external programs to implement operations, and is designed to
 make it easy to tie an existing database to the
 .B slapd
 front-end.
+.LP
+This backend is is primarily intended to be used in prototypes.
+.SH WARNING
+The
+.B abandon
+shell command has been removed since OpenLDAP 2.1.
 .SH CONFIGURATION
 These
 .B slapd.conf
@@ -27,13 +33,6 @@ These options specify the pathname and arguments of the program to
 execute in response to the given LDAP operation.
 Each option is followed by the input lines that the program receives:
 .TP
-.B abandon  <pathname> <argument>...
-.nf
-ABANDON
-msgid: <message id>
-<repeat { "suffix:" <database suffix DN> }>
-.fi
-.TP
 .B add      <pathname> <argument>...
 .nf
 ADD
@@ -122,7 +121,7 @@ want the backend to handle.
 Operations for which a command is not supplied will be refused with an
 "unwilling to perform" error.
 .LP
-The commands - except \fBabandon\fP and \fBunbind\fP - should output:
+The commands - except \fBunbind\fP - should output:
 .RS
 .nf
 RESULT
@@ -138,8 +137,16 @@ Lines starting with `#' or `DEBUG:' are ignored.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 There is an example search script in the slapd/back-shell/ directory
 in the OpenLDAP source tree.
+.SH LIMITATIONS
+The shell backend does not support threaded environments.
+When using the shell backend, 
+.BR slapd (8)
+should be built
+.IR --without-threads .
 .SH FILES
+.TP
 ETCDIR/slapd.conf
+default slapd configuration file
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR slapd.conf (5),
 .BR slapd (8),