From: Gavin Henry <ghenry@openldap.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:00:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ITS#5028
X-Git-Tag: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_3_39~34
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6472d172a8c822ca12ac6bf2c77ba62630c58855;p=thirdparty%2Fopenldap.git

ITS#5028
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diff --git a/doc/man/man8/slapcat.8 b/doc/man/man8/slapcat.8
index bc96040fa6..e765406bd7 100644
--- a/doc/man/man8/slapcat.8
+++ b/doc/man/man8/slapcat.8
@@ -109,10 +109,18 @@ default config file is ignored.
 .BI \-l " ldif-file"
 Write LDIF to specified file instead of standard output.
 .SH LIMITATIONS
-In general, your
+For some backend types, your
 .BR slapd (8)
 should not be running (at least, not in read-write
-mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the database.
+mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the database. It is
+always safe to run 
+.B slapcat
+with the
+.BR slapd-bdb (5),
+.BR slapd-hdb (5),
+and
+.BR slapd-null (5)
+backends.
 .SH EXAMPLES
 To make a text backup of your SLAPD database and put it in a file called
 .BR ldif ,