From 6472d172a8c822ca12ac6bf2c77ba62630c58855 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin Henry <ghenry@openldap.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:00:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ITS#5028

---
 doc/man/man8/slapcat.8 | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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 ,
-- 
2.47.2