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diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-shell.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-shell.5
index a880f68c6a..24d217b214 100644
--- 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 1998-2004 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
 .\" Copying restrictions apply.  See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
 .\" $OpenLDAP$
 .SH NAME
@@ -13,10 +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
-.B "This backend's calling conventions have changed since OpenLDAP 2.0."
-The abandon operation now gets a new "pid:" line.
-The "msgid:" lines will be removed in a future version.
+The
+.B abandon
+shell command has been removed since OpenLDAP 2.1.
 .SH CONFIGURATION
 These
 .B slapd.conf
@@ -31,14 +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 of operation to abandon>
-<repeat { "suffix:" <database suffix DN> }>
-pid: <process ID of operation to abandon>
-.fi
-.TP
 .B add      <pathname> <argument>...
 .nf
 ADD
@@ -127,7 +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
@@ -143,6 +137,12 @@ 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