The init script slapd provide start, stop and other commands for OpenLDAP daemon. It requires:
- Logger, to forward messages to syslog
- Awk, for regular expression management
- BerkeleyDB, for recover and archive tools
- OpenLDAP, for save, index, … tools
Configuration of this script can be done in an external file, with the same name as the init script in /etc/default.
A backup feature allows to save all data or configuration in an LDIF file, compressed or not. The restore feature import the last backup in the directory.
See http://ltb-project.org/wiki/documentation/openldap-initscript