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Old 11-14-2008
Automating slapconfig
I'm a New Media student working at a small media/tech company that's part of the New Media department at my school. I'm working on a MySQL/LDAP-based system for keeping track of users of our Mac file server. I'm trying to write a script that backs up our LDAP database using the slapconfig command with the -backupdb flag. When I run it, it prompts me for a password for the archive that it's going to create. I need this to run in an automated script, so it can't have user input. How can I send the password directly to slapconfig? I've tried using expect but I don't think it's the right tool for the job. The man page for slapconfig doesn't have anything.

My shell experience is pretty much limited to this project. I had someone who was mentoring me and helping out, but he's at a different campus this year and I can't get in touch with him. Any ideas?
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ldd

ldd(1)							      General Commands Manual							    ldd(1)

NAME

       ldd - List dynamic dependencies of executable files or shared objects

SYNOPSIS

       ldd [-rdV] filename

OPTIONS

       Prints  warnings  for  any unresolved data symbol references that would occur as a result of filename being executed. (Checks references to
       only data objects, not functions.)  Prints warnings for any unresolved symbol references that would occur as a  result  of  filename  being
       executed. (Checks references to both data objects and functions.)  Displays the version of the ldd command.

DESCRIPTION

       The  ldd  command  lists  the dynamic dependencies of an executable file or shared object: If filename is an executable file, ldd lists the
       pathnames of all shared objects that would be loaded as a result of executing filename.	If filename is a  shared  object,  ldd	lists  the
       pathnames  of  all shared objects that would be loaded as a result of loading filename. The ldd command expects shared objects to have exe-
       cute permission, and if this is not the case, it will issue a warning before attempting to process the file.

NOTES

       The ldd command does not list shared objects explicitly attached by using dlopen().

       The ldd command prints the record of shared object pathnames to stdout. The optional list of symbol  resolution	problems  are  printed	to
       stderr.

EXIT STATUS

       If filename is not an executable file or a shared object, a non-zero exit status is returned.

EXAMPLES

       The  following  command lists the static dependencies of libXm.so: ldd /usr/shlib/libXm.so The following command lists the static dependen-
       cies of libXm.so as well as any unresolved symbol in libXm.so or any of its dependents: ldd -r /usr/shlib/libXm.so

SEE ALSO

       loader(5)

																	    ldd(1)