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.TH NS-SLAPD 8 "May 18, 2008"
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.SH NAME
ns-slapd \- The main Directory Server daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ns-slapd
-D configdir [\fI-d debuglevel\fR] [\fI-i pidlogfile\fR] [\fI-v\fR] [\fI-V\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
ns-slapd launches the LDAP Directory Server 
.PP
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.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below:
.TP
.B \-v
Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-D configdir
Specifies the configuration directory pointing at the instance
to be started (e.g. /etc/dirsrv/slapd-localhost)
.TP
.B \-d debuglevel
Specifies the debuglevel to be used 
.TP
.B \-i pidlogfile
Specifies file where the pid of the process will be stored
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.SH AUTHOR
ns-slapd was written by the Fedora Directory Server Project.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to http://bugzilla.redhat.com.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Used by permission.
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Copyright \(co 2008 Red Hat, Inc.
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This manual page was written by Michele Baldessari <michele@pupazzo.org>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the Directory Server license found in the LICENSE file of this
software distribution.  This license is essentially the GNU General Public
License version 2 with an exception for plug-in distribution.