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ldap2tinydns-conf

LDAP2TINYDNS-CONF(1)					      General Commands Manual					      LDAP2TINYDNS-CONF(1)

NAME

       ldap2tinydns-conf - part of the ldap2dns DNS management system

SYNOPSIS

       ldap2tinydns-conf

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  ldap2tinydns-conf command.	This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
       because the original program does not have a manual page yet.

       ldap2tinydns-conf is a shell script to help configure ldap2dns for use with tinydns.  This script wil add the directory structure and files
       required to run ldap2dns under daemontools.

       Run this script within your tinydns directory.
       For example: root@host[/var/tinydns]# ldap2tinydns-conf

       This creates the ldap2tinydns directory under your tinydns directory and adds the default configuration under ldap2tinydns/env.

OPTIONS

       This shell script does not take any commanline options.

SEE ALSO

       tinydns, ldap2dns(1).

       Please visit the project homepage for more detail: [http://ldap2dns.tiscover.com/]

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Johann Botha <joe@blio.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system and is distributed under the GPL version 2 or
       later.

       Jacob Rief <jacob.rief@tiscover.com> is the original author of this program..

								   June 7, 2001 					      LDAP2TINYDNS-CONF(1)