.TH SLAPD.PLUGIN 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
-.\" Copyright 2002 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 2002-2003 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
.\" Copying restrictions apply. See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
.SH NAME
slapd.plugin \- plugin configuration for slapd, the stand-alone LDAP daemon
Version 4.0 of the API is currently implemented.
.LP
Database specific data may contain plugin information.
+This manpage details the
+.BR slapd (8)
+configuration statements that affect the loading of SLAPI \fIplugins\fP.
.LP
Arguments that should be replaced by actual text are shown in brackets <>.
+.LP
The structure of the plugin directives is
.TP
.B plugin "<type> <lib_path> <init_function> [<arguments>]"
The optional
.BR <arguments>
list is passed to the init function.
+.TP
+.B pluginlog <file>
+Specify an alternative path for the plugin log file (default is
+LOCALSTATEDIR/error).
+.TP
+.B modulepath <pathspec>
+This statement sets the module load path for dynamically loadable
+backends, as described in
+.BR slapd.conf (5);
+however, since both the dynamically loadable backends
+and the SLAPI plugins use the same underlying library (libtool's ltdl)
+its value also affects the plugin search path.
+In general the search path is made of colon-separated paths; usually
+the user-defined path is searched first; then the value of the
+\fILTDL_LIBRARY_PATH\fP environment variable, if defined, is used;
+finally, the systemi-specific dynamic load path is attempted (e.g. on
+Linux the value of the environment variable \fILD_LIBRARY_PATH\fP).
+Please carefully read the documentation of ltdl because its behavior
+is very platform dependent.
.SH FILES
.TP
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
projects / openldap / blobdiff