ITS#3716, add note about -f/-F behavior re: converting formats

diff --git a/doc/man/man8/slapd.8 b/doc/man/man8/slapd.8
index 0fa5d7d54c27023c28114af57cb7397f6180d1b3..43876d916d5f299ceaa5a3b53956bde14b0850eb 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/man8/slapd.8
+++ b/doc/man/man8/slapd.8
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ config directory format and written to the specified directory.
 If neither option is specified, slapd will attempt to read the
 default config directory before trying to use the default
 config file. If a valid config directory exists then the
-default config file is ignored.
+default config file is ignored. All of the slap tools that
+use the config options observe this same behavior.
 .TP
 .BI \-h " URLlist"
 .B slapd

diff --git a/doc/man/man8/slaptest.8 b/doc/man/man8/slaptest.8
index 50d30a67899e01540b317b18699d4031e04c29c5..2ba6a75be041151a8dd3a8b13744ac1fb437787a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/man8/slaptest.8
+++ b/doc/man/man8/slaptest.8
@@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ file.
 .TP
 .BI \-F " confdir"
 specify a config directory.
+If both
+.B -f
+and
+.B -F
+are specified, the config file will be read and converted to
+config directory format and written to the specified directory.
+If neither option is specified, slaptest will attempt to read the
+default config directory before trying to use the default
+config file. If a valid config directory exists then the
+default config file is ignored. If dryrun mode is also specified,
+no conversion will occur. All of the slap tools that
+use the config options observe this same behavior.
 .TP
 .B \-u
 enable dryrun mode (i.e. don't fail if databases cannot be opened,