In the init.d slapd script, -f $SLAPD_CONF or -F $SLAPD_CONF is added to $SLAPD_OPTIONS only if $SLAPD_PIDFILE is the empty string. This is strange as SLAPD_PIDFILE is one of the
variables that it is suggested that one could set in /etc/default/slapd. The result is that if one sets SLAPD_PIDFILE in /etc/default/slapd then setting also SLAPD_CONF in it will have no effect.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: slapd 2.4.11-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8
PATH=/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/aldor/linux/1.0.2/bin:/home/matte/username/bin:/home/matte/username/texfiler/bin:.
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: openldap
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
I can confirm this. Setting SLAPD_PIDFILE does in effect nullify the result of any value set to SLAPD_CONF.
The same goes for the Jaunty version (2.4.11-0ubuntu7).