On 2008-05-11 18:37:01 +0100, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> said:

> On Sun, 11 May 2008, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
>>> In Solaris 9 there was a hint of trouble to come. More have and
>>> "directoryserver" to start LDAP. Now no self respecting UNIX guru would
>>> create a command that long. A sign of newbees at the OS development table.
>>>
>>
>> I suppose you would have preferred something like
>> lqp \/!x;z?/
>> Definitely more "Unix like". The trouble is, people have to read it and type
>> it; hopefully without error!
>
> "ldapd" would be the canonical UNIX-like choice for this example, I think.
> Nothing hard about that...

Except in practice it is the LDAP to DAP gateway daemon, and the
LDAP-only server you were probably thinking of is called slapd :-)

Cheers,

Chris