slapd-null – Null backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The Null backend to slapd(8) is surely the most useful part of slapd: – Searches return success but no entries. – Compares return compareFalse. – Updates return success (unless readonly is on) but do nothing. – Binds other than as the rootdn fail unless the database…
slapd-ndb – MySQL NDB backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The ndb backend to slapd(8) uses the MySQL Cluster package to store data, through its NDB API. It provides fault tolerance with extreme scalability, along with a degree of SQL compatibility. This backend is designed to store LDAP information using tables that are also visible…
slapd-monitor – Monitor backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The monitor backend to slapd(8) is not an actual database; if enabled, it is automatically generated and dynamically maintained by slapd with information about the running status of the daemon. To inspect all monitor information, issue a subtree search with base cn=Monitor, requesting that attributes "+"…
slapd-meta – metadirectory backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The meta backend to slapd(8) performs basic LDAP proxying with respect to a set of remote LDAP servers, called "targets". The information contained in these servers can be presented as belonging to a single Directory Information Tree (DIT). A basic knowledge of the functionality of the…
slapd-mdb – Memory-Mapped DB backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The mdb backend to slapd(8) uses OpenLDAP’s Lightning Memory-Mapped DB (LMDB) library to store data. It relies completely on the underlying operating system for memory management and does no caching of its own. It is the recommended primary database backend. The mdb backend is similar…
slapd-ldif – LDIF backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The LDIF backend to slapd(8) is a basic storage backend that stores entries in text files in LDIF format, and exploits the filesystem to create the tree structure of the database. It is intended as a cheap, low performance easy to use backend, and it is…
slapd-ldbm – Discontinued LDBM backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description LDBM was the original database backend to slapd(8), and was supported up to OpenLDAP 2.3. It has been superseded by the more robust BDB and HDB backends. See Also slapd(8), slapd-bdb(5), slapd.backends(5). Acknowledgements OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>. OpenLDAP…
slapd-ldap – LDAP backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The LDAP backend to slapd(8) is not an actual database; instead it acts as a proxy to forward incoming requests to another LDAP server. While processing requests it will also chase referrals, so that referrals are fully processed instead of being returned to the slapd client….
slapd-bdb, slapd-hdb – Berkeley DB backends to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The bdb backend to slapd(8) uses the Oracle Berkeley DB (BDB) package to store data. It makes extensive use of indexing and caching to speed data access. Note that BDB is deprecated and support will be dropped in future OpenLDAP releases. Installations should use…
slapd-dnssrv – DNS SRV referral backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The DNSSRV backend to slapd(8) serves up referrals based upon SRV resource records held in the Domain Name System. This backend is experimental. Configuration The DNSSRV backend has no backend nor database specific options. It is configured simply by "database dnssrv" followed a suffix…
slapd-config – configuration backend to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.d Description The config backend manages all of the configuration information for the slapd(8) daemon. This configuration information is also used by the SLAPD tools slapacl(8), slapadd(8), slapauth(8), slapcat(8), slapdn(8), slapindex(8), and slaptest(8). The config backend is backward compatible with the older slapd.conf(5) file but provides the ability…
slapd-bdb, slapd-hdb – Berkeley DB backends to slapd Synopsis /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Description The bdb backend to slapd(8) uses the Oracle Berkeley DB (BDB) package to store data. It makes extensive use of indexing and caching to speed data access. Note that BDB is deprecated and support will be dropped in future OpenLDAP releases. Installations should use…
slabinfo – kernel slab allocator statistics Synopsis cat /proc/slabinfo Description Frequently used objects in the Linux kernel (buffer heads, inodes, dentries, etc.) have their own cache. The file /proc/slabinfo gives statistics on these caches. The following (edited) output shows an example of the contents of this file: $ sudo cat /proc/slabinfo slabinfo – version: 2.1…
site-lib – [Location of package directories] Standard Layout …somewhere in the filesystem hierarchy… | \ site-lib | +- (optional) stublibs +- (optional) postinstall +- (optional) postremove | +- package1 | | | +- META | +- archive files | +- interface definitions | +- package2 + : : \ packageN Description Every installation of "findlib" has a default location for package directories, which is normally a directory called "site-lib"….
sip2ncid.conf – sip2ncid configuration file Description The sip2ncid.conf file contains the configuration information for sip2ncid, the Network Caller ID Server. The sip2ncid.conf file is used to set options. Options are set on a command line. A line is broken up into words. A word is either a string of non-blank characters, everything between double quotes,…
sim – format of .sim files read by esim, crystal, etc. Description The simulation tools crystal(1) and esim(1) accept a circuit description in .sim format. There is a single .sim file for the entire circuit, unlike Magic’s ext(5) format in which there is a .ext file for every cell in a hierarchical design. A .sim…
npm-shrinkwrap.json – A publishable lockfile Description npm-shrinkwrap.json is a file created by npm help shrinkwrap. It is identical to package-lock.json, with one major caveat: Unlike package-lock.json, npm-shrinkwrap.json may be included when publishing a package. The recommended use-case for npm-shrinkwrap.json is applications deployed through the publishing process on the registry: for example, daemons and command-line tools…
shorewall6.conf – Shorewall6 global configuration file Synopsis /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf Description This file sets options that apply to Shorewall6 as a whole. The file consists of Shell comments (lines beginning with ‘#’), blank lines and assignment statements (variable=value). If the value contains shell meta characters or white-space, then it must be enclosed in quotes. Example: LOG_LEVEL="NFLOG(1,0,1)". Options…
zones – Shorewall6 zone declaration file Synopsis /etc/shorewall6/zones Description The /etc/shorewall6/zones file declares your network zones. You specify the hosts in each zone through entries in /etc/shorewall6/interfaces or /etc/shorewall6/hosts. The columns in the file are as follows (where the column name is followed by a different name in parentheses, the different name is used in…
vardir – Shorewall6 file Synopsis /etc/shorewall6/vardir Description This file does not exist by default. You may create the file if you want to change the directory used by Shorewall6 to store state information, including compiled firewall scripts. By default, the directory used is /var/lib/shorewall6/. The file contains a single variable assignment: VARDIR=directory where directory is…